[Imports] cleanup broken import "fix"

malenki osm_ at malenki.ch
Thu Jun 12 09:07:45 UTC 2014


On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:21:23 -0500
Eric Ladner wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:19 PM, malenki
> <osm_ at malenki.ch> wrote:
> 
> > I won't use a tag which I don't consider useful.
> > For me it is:
> > waterway=* == flowing water
> > natural=water == not flowing (though the most water bodies have
> > some current)
> >
> >
> Tags water=pond or water=lake may not be immediately view-able on the
> map, but they do convey information (assuming there's also a
> natural=water tag on the feature).
> 
> water=lake      - large natural bodies of water
> water=reservoir - large man-made bodies of water
> water=pond     - small man-made bodies of water
>
> The only ambiguity is the vagueness of small vs. large, and local
> naming conventions (something is named Lake Blah, when it is
> technically a reservoir because it's man-made - Big Creek Lake in
> southern Alabama, for example).

I disagree.
For reservoir, there is already landuse=reservoir.
To know the size of a certain feature it would be more useful to
derive the size from its actual geometry contained in OSM instead
relying on a fuzzy description. Or the person who wants to see how big
the object is just looks at a map where natural=water is rendered…

> Personally, I'd vote for removing the double tagged water=lake;pond
> since it's redundant and should be one or the other, not both, and
> ensuring that each feature had a natural=water tag.

ok





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