<html><head></head><body>Creek is certainly used in Essex.<br>
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Phil (trigpoint) <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 August 2018 12:40:38 BST, Paul Allen <pla16021@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:16 PM, SelfishSeahorse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:selfishseahorse@gmail.com" target="_blank">selfishseahorse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Actually, it's only drain that doesn't seem to make sense<br>
semantically, but ditch seems to be fine for smaller canals used for<br>
drainage and irrigation, at least according to the definitions by<br>
Wikipedia[^1] and the Cambridge Dictionary[^2].<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As used by Ordnance Survey in the UK, "drain" is what most of us (even in the UK) think of as a ditch.</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I'm not sure if a (smaller) mill race can also be called a ditch,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wouldn't think of a mill race as a ditch. To my mind a ditch is not about transporting water from A to B and</div><div>especially not for generating mechanical power. I wouldn't call a mill race a canal, either, but it seems to be</div><div>closer in definition than ditch is.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> but i think it makes sense to have at least two tags for man-made channels<br>
of different width.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not if width=* can do the job. Not if it's possible to draw an outline of the bank. Both are possible. It's just that</div><div>current OSM carto doesn't honour them in this situation.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">* waterway=creek - small to medium-sized natural stream (1-3 m wide)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is not UK usage. See <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creek">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/creek</a></div><div><br></div><div>The only word I can find meaning large stream is "beck." Or you could have "brook" for small stream. Giving</div><div>either river/beck/stream or river/stream/brook. Or we just stick with river/stream. Especially as we don't have a</div><div>meaningful definition of the difference (how far can you jump).<br></div><div><br></div><div>All this is complicated by the fact that what starts out as a brook often turns into a stream which can turn into a river, and is</div><div>named "River X" or "Afon X" (if you're Welsh") all the way from the mouth to the dripping tap in somebody's back yard (spot</div><div>the old TV comedy reference).</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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