[Tagging] man_made=pipeline - is onewayness implied?

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 05.07.2014 20:25, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
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>> Am 05/lug/2014 um 14:50 schrieb Peter Wendorff
>> <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
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>> so you would call the Mittellandkanal, connecting Elbe and Weser
>> in Germany a lake?
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> no, and I can't imagine how you read this from my posting, the
> Mittellandkanal had indeed a lot of flow, besides transportation
> bringing water to industrial users is one of its purposes.

Well...

> when there is no flow it is a lake itself 

I chose the Mittellandkanal as a famous example without incline (except
the built-in locks). Nevertheless - even without any incline and without
any locks, without water taken out and put in leading to reasonable
flow, it would IMHO not be a lake, but stay a canal. ;)

regards
Peter