[OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

[Pieren]

Some people decided recently and alone to introduce the tag "culvert=yes" on
the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:culvert

Question 1 : is "culvert" commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that
a term mainly used by civil engineers ?
Question 2 : if not, is it normal that OSM average contributor has to use
these technical words just to make the civil engineers happy ? Don't we take
the risk to exclude more and more average contributors by adopting such
technical vocabular ?
Question 3 : between tunnel, covered and culvert, how many additionnal tags
are we going to create to designate the exact same thing : "the water is
under the road" ?

Pieren
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