[OSM-newbies] Stuff

[Richard Fairhurst]

And so this breaks all the threading and stuff. Sorry: my excuse is that 
Nabble don't index this list and, exasperatingly, don't answer e-mails. 
If I had the proverbial spare hours in the day I'd write a better web 
interface to it, but Potlatch 2 is kind of more important. If you think 
the In-Reply-To header is important, you can write said web interface 
yourself.

Anyway, here's some responses to recent stuff.

Bill Condie wrote:
> Problem is, most are irrigations trenches - some man made - from very
> big to very small. Most aren't canals in the sense of Amsterdam with
> boats, although some are.

waterway=drain. If it also admits boats, waterway=drain and boat=yes.

Dave F. wrote:
> How an area can be described as an AONB when Jeremy Clarkson lives there
> is beyond me!

As someone who lives four miles down the road from the infernal Mr 
Clarkson (in the AONB) I take exception to that. :p

Alex Mauer wrote:
> bicycle=designated is not currently rendered by opencyclemap; it's just
> correct tagging for the route you’ve described.
> [and several more messages on the same topic]

I should point out to the rest of those listening that Alex is an 
enthusiast for =designated. I don't know anyone else, at all, who uses 
it. That's his prerogative, but make your own mind up. There is no 
"correct" one way or the other.

cheers
Richard