[Tagging] Adding water=fishpond to the wiki

Matthijs Melissen info at matthijsmelissen.nl
Sun Jan 4 18:55:25 UTC 2015


On 4 January 2015 at 18:44, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our wiki is missing a definition for a body of water used exclusively for
> fish farming. Since it's a small change to the wiki I thought it would be
> enough just to contact this list. This is the wiki page:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water
>
> If there is a better word, or a tag that is already used, we can discuss it
> here.

I would use a subtag, like natural=water, water=pond, pond=fish_pond.

The paradoxic effect of adding more detailed tags is that the data
gets less useful to data consumers, because most data users won't add
particular processing rules for fish ponds, while if we use a subtag,
they could still use the rules for water=pond.

-- Matthijs



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