[Tagging] Water source types

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2018-01-13 0:14 GMT+01:00 Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com>:

> A waterway, in English, and on OSM is a *navigable* body of inland water
> such as a river or a canal.  There's another  meaning in English (but not
> OSM) of waterway to mean a conduit to drain water.
>


actually, in OSM the waterway key is used for a lot of things that are
connected to the navigation on water, as well as to the system of flowing
(mostly surface) water. "drain", "ditch", "stream" for instance aren't
navigable typically.

Cheers,
Martin
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