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<p>Hi</p>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">IMO pond should not be mapped because it
is not observable on the ground. How do you determine if it is </span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">"artificially
created"/"man made"?</span></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">See:<br>
</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pond" class="extiw"
title="wikipedia:Pond" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(102, 51, 102); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">A pond</a><span style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">: a body of standing water, man-made
in most cases, that is usually smaller than a lake. </span></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dpond">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dpond</a><br>
</span></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">Lake: a body of relatively still fresh
or salt water, localized in a basin that is surrounded by land.
Artificially created lakes are tagged as<span> </span></span><tt
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monospace; font-size: 1em; direction: ltr; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
background: rgb(238, 238, 255); line-height: 1.6;"><bdi
style="unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water"
title="Key:water" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11,
0, 128); background: none;">water</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dpond"
title="Tag:water=pond" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><bdi style="unicode-bidi:
isolate;">pond</bdi></a></tt><span style="color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;"><span> </span>or<span> </span></span><tt
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monospace; font-size: 1em; direction: ltr; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
background: rgb(238, 238, 255); line-height: 1.6;"><bdi
style="unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water"
title="Key:water" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11,
0, 128); background: none;">water</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dreservoir"
title="Tag:water=reservoir" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><bdi style="unicode-bidi:
isolate;">reservoir</bdi></a></tt><span style="color: rgb(34,
34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">. Intermittent lakes (which disappear
seasonally) should be tagged with<span> </span></span><tt
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monospace; font-size: 1em; direction: ltr; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
background: rgb(238, 238, 255); line-height: 1.6;"><bdi
style="unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:intermittent"
title="Key:intermittent" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">intermittent</a></bdi>=<bdi
style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">yes</bdi></tt><span style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">; salt lakes — with<span> </span></span><tt
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monospace; font-size: 1em; direction: ltr; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;
background: rgb(238, 238, 255); line-height: 1.6;"><bdi
style="unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:salt"
title="Key:salt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11,
0, 128); background: none;">salt</a></bdi>=<bdi
style="unicode-bidi: isolate;">yes</bdi></tt><span style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">.<span> </span></span><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dlake">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dlake</a>
<p>As it stands right now in the wiki I suggest we either deprecate
the tag completely or change the definition to something that is
observable on the ground.</p>
<p>WDYT?<br>
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