[Tagging] Canal banks

[Pieren]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Malcolm Herring
<malcolm.herring at btinternet.com> wrote:

> waterway=riverbank: 260,000 instances
> water=canal:2400 instances

You forgot water=river (5000 instances)

It's true that the water=* proposal never went to its conclusion :
deprecate "riverbank" officially in the wiki, something decided by 16
people - and you're right - it probably wouldn't have passed). But the
question is coming back soon or later anyway. And since 2+ years the
wiki is ambiguous and does not help newcomers. This way of deprecating
a tag silently is not fair.

Pieren

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_details