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Are the ones in New Mexico similar?</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mike Thompson <miketho16@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 10 November 2021 23:50<br>
<b>To:</b> Emil Linus Albrecht <admin@sandschmecktgut.de><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Andrew Hain <andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk>; Talk OSM <talk@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] Mass-replace outdated water=salt</font>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 1:39 PM Mike Thompson <<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com">miketho16@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>2) Salt water in Colorado? This seems a little unlikely. I downloaded some of the NHD and I can't see how the original importer determined that these were salt water. There is a possible ftype in the NHD for estuary which would imply salt water, but
the features I looked at didn't have this ftype. A mass mechanical edit may simply perpetuate bad data here.</div>
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<div> In Colorado there are ~4,445 objects in the OSM database with water=salt. All but two of them are intermittent bodies of water and those two were originally intermittent in the NHD import, but were subsequently edited. I suspect that the original importer
made the assumption that intermittent implied salt water, or perhaps intermittent plus some other condition, such as no draining perennial waterway. In any event, I don't think this is a valid assumption. Rather than a mechanical edit, a better option might
be to create a map roulette challenge. </div>
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