[Tagging] Adding water=fishpond to the wiki

[Lukas Sommer]

But we have also yet an existing tag water=pond for ponds. We would
have to change the defination for this tag from “a pond”
 to “a pond – but not if this is a pond that serves for fishing” –
sounds complicate …
Lukas Sommer


2015-01-04 20:20 GMT+01:00 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>:
> 2015-01-04 19:55 GMT+01:00 Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl>:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> But water=fishpond is already a subtag of natural=water. Most renderers (if
> not all) use natural=water. I'm not sure if subtagging water=pond adds
> anything useful to the equation.
>
> A pond is just a small lake, so that's a pretty vague tag to build upon.
>
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