<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div>I note on the Natural England condition statement that they use the
phrase "Residual Waterway", so perhaps we can make use of something like
canal=residual. <br><br>Jonathan Briggs did a nice article on the
ecology of the Montgomery Canal in British Wildlife a few years ago (BW,
17:401-410, 2006 IIRC).</div><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Richard Fairhurst <richard@systemed.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, 20 January, 2011 12:21:58<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)<br></font><br><br>Someoneelse wrote:<br>> I suspect that you could probably get a larger boat along the top <br>> bit (just south of Ambergate) without too many issues, but I think <br>> the bottom bit had signs suggesting not to disturb anything.<br><br>From WW's most recent article on the Cromford:<br>....<br><br>And indeed, since 2005 (WW January
2006), FCC do run occasional horse-drawn<br>boat trips there. (Unpowered boats obviously create less disturbance to<br>vegetation in the channel - similar reasoning is behind the 2mph limit on a<br>stretch of the Montgomery IIRC.)<br><br>So the correct way to tag the stretch from Ambergate to Cromford would be<br>something indicating horse-drawn boats yes, powered boats no. I'll leave it<br>to the wikifiddlers to decide what key/value pair works for that. :)<br><br>cheers<br>Richard<br><br><br>-- <br>View this message in context: <a href="http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Re-Waterways-Map-was-invisible-tp5941444p5943533.html" target="_blank">http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Re-Waterways-Map-was-invisible-tp5941444p5943533.html</a><br>Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-GB mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org"
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