<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:15 AM Dave F <<a href="mailto:davefoxfac63@btinternet.com">davefoxfac63@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I agree that landuse=reservoir tag should be swapped to natural=water, <br>
water=reservoir. It will fit in with all the other water=* tags. Britain <br>
is now devoid of 'waterway=riverbank' 'landuse=lake' tags<br>
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I see no reason why it can't be done on mass. It was why the software to <br>
do it was written. There will be no creation of new errors, just <br>
existing ones moved to a different tag. Automatic edits will always <br>
produce fewer errors than anyone mistyping or selecting the incorrect <br>
choice from a pop down menu when editing individual objects.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For those of you familiar with my activities regarding rivers, it should come as no surprise that I looked into doing this for reservoirs (at least starting in the United States). The main problem is that there is a vast number of objects that are mis-tagged as something else, typically a basin, or a water treatment pond, or a cattle tank. In addition, there are some major hangover effects from old imports - 40,000 landuse=reservoir GNIS nodes in the US that need to get merged, traced, or deleted. Just north of the border in Canada, there are thousands upon thousands of misplaced cattle tanks that are so wildly divorced from reality that they're better off being deleted than fixed. Since we've been using the new tagging here for quite some time, I felt that landuse=reservoir served as a marker of sorts for old tagging that needed a human inspection. The waterway=riverbank tag was a bit easier to deal with on a larger scale, as they encompassed both canals and rivers, and canal systems were pretty easy to detect on a visual scan and some clues about the topography of the region. So, I've not pursued a universal replacement of landuse=reservoir because of the nuances of the objects that are currently tagged that way.</div></div></div>