<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:09, ael <<a href="mailto:law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com">law_ence.dev@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:03:29AM -0800, Tod Fitch wrote:<br>
> Most of what I’d call a drain around here would be large underground pipes designed to carry storm water. Empty most of the time except perhaps for a trickle of water from various urban/suburban watering overflow. Used most of the time by raccoons, possums and rats as away to navigate through or shelter in an area without having to worry about being attacked by neighborhood dogs, though the larger ones could be attractive for adventuresome teenage boys to explore.<br>
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Same in UK: I forgot to mention them. The pipes serving domestic houses<br>
and draining water from roads are all "drains", and by extension also<br>
for the entrance grills in roads and the like. That includes sewers as<br>
well. But I guess few of them would be mapped in OSM unless particularly<br>
large or significant. Back to the point: it would be unnatural to tag<br>
them as canals! Some might overlap with culverts?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep.</div><div><br></div><div>Stormwater drainage pipes take water from the house out to the gutter, where it runs down to the drain & eventually to a creek / lake / sea.</div><div><br></div><div>Canals are big things that can take boats, not little gutters for water.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're feeding water to a field, it's runs via an irrigation "channel".</div><div><br></div><div>Aren't mills usually fed from <i>"The Old Mill Stream"</i> :-)</div><div><br></div><div>& most fountains I know are either in the middle of a lake / pond, or fed by underground pipes.</div><div><br></div><div>So should we add gutter & channel to the list of features?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div>