<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 22, 2020, at 10:24 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mi., 22. Juli 2020 um 17:27 Uhr schrieb Tod Fitch <<a href="mailto:tod@fitchfamily.org" class="">tod@fitchfamily.org</a>>:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">It certainly would not be my pick of terms, but it seems manhole=drain has an appropriate definition in the wiki [1] and considerable use [2] for a place that water disappears into a man made structure. Most of them around here are not circular and many appear to be too small for a person to get into when the grate is removed. But OSM has odd tagging for other things so why not this too? </div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would rather try to limit the "odd cases", and maybe even get rid of them in the long term. There is no benefit from using inappropriate terms. If manhole=* is generally considered to be about manholes, why would we want to encourage more usage for non-manhole objects?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMHO we should fix the definition in the wiki by making it more precise, as there aren't so many yet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Looking at wikipedia, it seems that “storm drain” is used in the UK, Canada and the US [1]. And there is an “inlet” [2] associated with it. What are the opinions using:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>storm_drain = inlet</div><div><br class=""></div><div>For the location that a surface drainage ditch disappears into an underground storm water system. The tag would most often be used on a node.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_drain" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_drain</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_drain#Inlet" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_drain#Inlet</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>