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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>How are folks mapping Swales?, that is manmade sustainable drainage channels that you typically find on new developments to enable water runoff to drain into the ground but usually with an overflow pipe system to enable water to go safely elsewhere in times of very heavy rain. A local housing estate in our village has a plethora of them and I had originally tagged them as natural=water, water=swale though in reality when they were first dug they had no water in them most of the time. Having walked around them yesterday I realise that have all be planted/colonised as reed beds so they might arguably be closer to a natural=wetland and wetland=reedbed, and I have changed tags to suite. However there are of course man made scrapes in the ground rather than natural and the tagging doesn’t reflect that they are swales, though I’ve added note=swale for now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/678368410">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/678368410</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I note that on the wiki, water=swale redirects to waterway=ditch<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>