[Tagging] How to tag beginning of a river

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Sat Feb 25 09:36:45 UTC 2017


On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 16:25 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> Taginfo shows 12 instances of a tag waterway:end=yes. It made me
> think a tagging scheme like the following might work to tag the node:
> 
> waterway:start=yes
> name=Colville River

The normal term is source, sometimes there is a monument.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2290436887#map=19/51.69406/-2.02959&
layers=D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Head

Phil (trigpoint)


> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.
> com> wrote:
> > >This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring"
> > node.
> > 
> > Not in this case. If the stream started at a spring, that is a
> > place where water comes from the within the earth, that would
> > be fine but the Colville begins at the place where two smaller
> > streams come together to form a larger stream. Sometimes this new
> > stream will take the name of one or another of the small streams
> > from which it derives but often people chose to name the "new"
> > stream differently and choose a new name, as they did here.
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-serve
> > r.de> wrote:
> > > On 25.02.2017 04:28, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> > > > I'm wondering if it's possible to tag in some meaningful way,
> > > > the place,
> > > > usually a node, where a river begins. It seems this would be of
> > > > interest
> > > > to people besides myself but I don't think there is currently a
> > > > way to
> > > > tag such a place.
> > > > 
> > >  
> > > This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring"
> > > node.
> > > 
> > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway
> > > 
> > > Is this usable?
> > > 
> > > Stephan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
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