<div class="gmail_extra">I would start with the direction as flowing from the spring/rainfall source, then add the oneway=no as suggested. This gives a nominal source-destination flow, even if it is later modified by conditions (manmade or natural)<br>
<br>A clearer example is a tidal basin. The normal flow will be out to sea, but due to tides will also flow in reverse.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Alexander Roalter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander@roalter.it" target="_blank">alexander@roalter.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 04/28/2012 09:23 PM, Paul Norman wrote:<br>
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From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com" target="_blank">neroute2@gmail.com</a>]<br>
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Subject: [Talk-us] Waterway directionality in drainage canals<br>
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It's the standard to draw a waterway in the direction of flow. I've<br>
questioned this several times, but it's an ingrained default.<br>
<br>
My question is more specific: what happens to a drainage canal that<br>
reverses direction? I offer the Everglades and surrounding agricultural<br>
land as an example. There are huge "water conservation areas" that store<br>
water. When it rains, gates are closed and opened to direct water into<br>
these. During a drought, gates send water back out into the canals for<br>
local use. When there's a big storm, water will instead go directly out<br>
to sea.<br>
<br>
So there are a lot of major canals that have no fixed direction. How<br>
should these be mapped? Is there any existing scheme that can show how<br>
water flows under different conditions?<br>
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<br>
The same issue came up with minor drainage ditches and cranberry fields<br>
here. They're used to drain sometimes and sometimes to flood the field for<br>
harvest.<br>
<br>
I came up with the proposal<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/directional" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<u></u>wiki/Proposed_features/<u></u>directional</a> for<br>
directional=* but it's abandoned.<br>
<br>
One weakness with the proposal is that unknown values are a special case of<br>
directional=no, not directional=yes<br>
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How about the oneway property? That is already often used on rivers (not so often on streams), but an explicit "oneway=no" would specify that water may flow in both directions... Just an idea.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>
Cheers,<br>
Alex</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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