<div dir="auto">There's also <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse=basin">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse=basin</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 10:48 Chris Hodges, <<a href="mailto:chris@c-hodges.co.uk">chris@c-hodges.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Thinking of basins, as well as deep areas of water for boats (in a few <br>
contexts, not just canals) standard uses include "river/stream/drainage <br>
basin" as a synonym for a river's catchment area, and use as just a <br>
local depression in the land is also supported. So it's pretty generic. <br>
Too generic? Probably not<br>
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Chris<br>
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On 24/09/2021 10:21, Mark Goodge wrote:<br>
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> On 24/09/2021 10:05, Chris Andrew wrote:<br>
>> Are these also known as 'balance tanks'?<br>
><br>
> Yes. Also balancing ponds, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), <br>
> retention ponds, attenuation ponds and run-off ponds. And, probably, <br>
> other names that I'm not thinking of at the moment.<br>
><br>
> The generic OSM word, according to the wiki, is "basin". I'm not <br>
> entirely happy with that - to me, a basin is part of a canal system <br>
> (eg Froghall Basin on the Trent and Mersey Canal) - but it's not a <br>
> hill that I'd die on.<br>
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> Mark<br>
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