[Tagging] Mapping leats

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 21 April 2017, Chris Hill wrote:
> A leat is a very specific thing. It is certainly not a canal, but
> neither is it a ditch nor drain. I would favour waterway=leat. That
> describes, unambiguously, exactly what it is.

I guess from your perspective it is but please try to define the meaning 
of waterway=leat for non-native English speakers from a completely 
different part of the world in a way that clearly tells them when to 
use this tag and when to use a different one.

For native English speakers this is often much more difficult - you try 
to synchronize your use of waterway=canal/ditch/drain with your 
understanding of these terms in your language - and inevitably fail 
with that attempt.  I just use these tags as defined on the wiki or as 
they are used by other mappers and don't concern myself with the 
inherent meaning of the value outside OSM.

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Christoph Hormann
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