[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - sluice_gate

[Steve Bennett]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> The question is, what else would go there? Flood gates don't belong there -
> that's the *usage* of the gate, not the *type* of gate.

>From a technical perspective you may be right, but practically
speaking, we should design tagging schemes with usability in mind.
People are likely to know that "there is a flood gate", not that
"there is a hinged crest gate".

So something like:

waterway=flood_gate
flood_gate=sluice_gate

...is more usable for non-techie nerds than something like:
waterway=flow_control
flow_control=sluice_gate
usage=flood_gate

Steve