[Tagging] how to tag a salt flat

[Warin]

On 30/09/2015 5:47 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 September 2015, joost schouppe wrote:
>> Because they tend to be dry most of the time, and plants tend to
>> dislike pure salt, they tend to look like a desert.
>>
>> How should one tag such a thing? I've seen three very different
>> ideas:
>> [...]
> There is no established tagging for this, none of your suggestions seems
> particularly good:
>
> - natural=desert is wrong for the salt flat itself in any case.  If it
> is a desert by whatever definition of desert it won't end at the edge
> of the salt flat usually.
> - natural=wetland means water saturated soil which is correct only for a
> very short time span between the water covered state and the dry state.
> - natural=water is questionable for areas that are never or only very
> sporadically covered by water.
>
> For areas with regular (i.e. seasonal) saltwater cover natural=water +
> intermittent=yes/seasonal=yes + salt=yes would be right, otherwise
> there is no well matching established tagging.

Lake Eyre in Australia (a very large salt water lake in Australia .. that may have water in it once every 10 years) is tagged

natural=water

water=lake

salt=yes

intermittent=yes

That, to me, is suitable as it matches my impression of what it is.