[Tagging] change recommendation from "depth" to "length" for the adit length?

[Zecke]

Am 15.05.2017 um 14:37 schrieb Andy Townsend:
> On 15/05/2017 12:59, Zecke wrote:
>> An "adit" is by definition an /entrance /to a subterranean gallery or 
>> drift.
>
> Er, no - at least not according to my understanding of the term as it 
> is used locally to me in England.
Well, after some googling it seems you're right and the wikipedia 
article is just a bit misleading. In fact it's just a copy from 
encyclopedia britannica (or vice versa?).
Comparing adits with drifts and galleries it seems an adit always has a 
surface end whereas the others can have so but do not need? So drift or 
gallery are more general and adit is more specific?
Anyway the term adit seems to be used often enough as a synonym for the 
adit mouth, probably as most people don't have access to the interior.

Same in German, where people are talking about "Stollen" when they just 
mean the "Stollenmundloch"

So I would be very reluctant to re-defining the established OSM tagging 
here.

Cheers,
Carsten
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