[Tagging] Water featuers

[Dave Swarthout]

I am uncomfortable with "cascade" - in several languages it
means "waterfall" so there is considerable potential for
confusion.

I agree. A cascade is a waterfall in American English.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Richard Z. <ricoz.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 02:00:30PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 22.05.2015 um 13:35 schrieb Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
> >:
> > >
> > > These might be cascades, rills, reflecting-pools, rain-chains, moats,
> etc.
> > >
> > > We might, for example, have:
> > >
> > >   natural=water
> > >   water=cascde
> > >
> > > etc. - but not:
> > >
> > >   water=fountain
> > >
> > > as we already have
> > >
> > >   amenity=fountain
> > >
> > > or we could have:
> > >
> > >   amenity=cascade
>
> I am uncomfortable with "cascade" - in several languages it
> means "waterfall" so there is considerable potential for
> confusion.
>
> Richard
>
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Dave Swarthout
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