<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 1 Apr 2022, at 17:24, Dave F via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">That's really irrelevant to this proposal of moving the dock tag
from waterway= to water= which are both water features. </div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>it is relevant, because water=* is about the <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Specification of a water body </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">while waterway=* is also for features related to waterways, like fuel stations, barriers on waterways, features like docks and boatyards, and more:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the water-key is hardly used on nodes, and 80% of these few nodes are temporary (representing lakes, reservoirs and ponds which will probably be converted to areas sooner or later: <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/water?filter=nodes#values">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/water?filter=nodes#values</a></div><div> while waterway is more often used for classical point features <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/waterway?filter=nodes#values">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/waterway?filter=nodes#values</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Martin </div></div></div></body></html>