[Tagging] Rivers classification

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 07.08.2017 o 10:51, Frederik Ramm pisze:
> You are welcome to write a renderer that computes these orders from the
> existing data but please don't expect or entice mappers to compute this
> and add the tags (or worse, entice people to write scripts that compute
> these orders and add the tags to OSM). That would be like adding "is_in"
> tags because the geocoder cannot be expected to compute this by itself.

I don't expect anyone to do this. I just noticed that we lack any 
worldwide classification of waterways (other than stream/river), which 
could be valuable data for different things. Some things can be computed 
and aggregated, but others are tagged as a general property - most 
notably highway types.

> I agree that some sort of river classification might be helpful but you
> cannot expect a mapper standing before a river to first analyse a large
> dataset before they can find the right classification tag - that would
> totally run counter of "on the ground verification".

This list is about creating standards for tagging. I ask here how to tag 
existing river classifications if someone wants to use it, not insist 
that we have to do it.

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