<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:47 AM Volker Schmidt <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com">voschix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><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"><div dir="ltr"><div>Referring to this half-sentence in the Brook discussion page:</div><div>"
This tag breaks with the basic convention of waterway tagging that
distinction between natural and artificial waterways is a primary
criterion."</div></div></blockquote><div> {snip}</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></div><div>So I have major doubts on this "basic" difference.</div><div>Even the criterion of free-flowing downhill does not help, as all water flows downhill, unless pumped uphill, be that a river (very big pumps) or a ditch.(small pumps)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Yours truly confused </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do not understand this notion that in order to tag water, a mapper must first determine whether that water is "natural" or "man-made" (whatever "man-made water" is. I envision someone with a white coat and some beakers in a lab creating this franken-water). It seems to me that it makes much more sense to be able to say "this is water" and then allow further tagging to say "a ha! this is (natural/artificial)" and then add further clarifying tags. Otherwise we are essentially saying "do not tag water unless you can first determine whether it is natural or artificial!</div><div><br></div><div>It does not help that the primary water tag is classified under the "natural" key. Thus there is a contingent that believes that the water that has collected in naturally-occuring pond is "natural", while the water that has collected in a reservoir is somehow "man-made". Water in a
canal or reservoir is just as natural as a forest in which all of the trees have been planted by humans.</div><div><br></div></div></div>