[Tagging] trees and waterways

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdorange at mac.com> wrote:
> I agree that the waterway flow would be more explicit for newbie, but to
> know the new tag they should read the wiki and the default rule (drawing
> direction is flow direction) is allready there.
> If they do not read the actual wiki, why do they read the new one ?

This isn't just for newbies. I've been here for almost a year and I
just found out about this convention a few weeks ago. I'm the kind of
person that doesn't bother to read the manual unless necessary, and
the meaning of most tags is clear from their rendering or name. A tag
like flow=downstream on waterways would have told me that I needed to
figure out what this tag means.