<div dir="ltr">There are a lot of straightened rivers and streams all over the world.<br>Would it make sense to tag the straightened sections as canal/ditch/drain rather than river/stream?<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Eugene</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 22:07, Eugene Podshivalov <<a href="mailto:yaugenka@gmail.com">yaugenka@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 19:19, Hufkratzer <<a href="mailto:hufkratzer@gmail.com" target="_blank">hufkratzer@gmail.com</a>>: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the presets, otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run. As far as I know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage declines. Currently its usage increases steadily. How do you intend to change that? What is the incentive for the mapper to use "ditch" instead of "drain" from now on? I am not even sure that most mappers will notice the change on the wiki pages. </blockquote><div dir="ltr">In Belarus we have 45366 ditches and 93320 drains mapped. 90% of those drains are drainage ditches (used for wet land drainage) because we have swamps and wetlands everywhere.</div><div>You are right saying that the usage of "drain" increases, but as you see from the statistics the usage is upside down because people perceive "drainage ditches" and "drains" as one and the same thing. So why do we need two tags for one and the same thing?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Eugene</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 19:19, Hufkratzer <<a href="mailto:hufkratzer@gmail.com" target="_blank">hufkratzer@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the
presets, otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run.
As far as I know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage
declines. Currently its usage increases steadily. How do you intend
to change that? What is the incentive for the mapper to use "ditch"
instead of "drain" from now on? <span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I am not even sure that most mappers
will notice the change on the wiki pages.</span><br>
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