[Tagging] RFC proposed water property key 'ephemeral '

[Warin]

On 23/05/18 07:25, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
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> 21. May 2018 22:34 by 61sundowner at gmail.com 
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>     Hi,
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>     Following from the discussion on "Seasonal, intermittent, and
>     ephemeral water tags" I have created this proposal.
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>     Hopefully the definition is tight enough that it excludes
>     intermittent, seasonal and any other thing that is not ephemeral.
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>     I have also included a guide on determination so that mappers can
>     see how to determine if something is ephemeral.
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>     So here it is ...
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>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ephemeral
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>     Is it clear? Do you understand it?
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> No, "ephemeral=summer" is unclear -
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It is a possible ephemeral flow (a flow of short duration) ... that can 
only occur in summer.

Similar to a tag seasonal=summer ... something that is seasonal that can 
only occur in summer.

I quote from the seasonal OSM wiki page
"describes exact season (if possible) when feature is present."

I'll put simillar on the proposed ephemeral page too, see below.


> is it
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> for flow that is constant but ephemeral
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An ephemeral flow is of short duration.
A constant flow would be there all the time ... so it could never be 
described as ephemeral.

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The tagging text on the ephemeral page now reads
"If a season is specified it states the exact season (if possible) when 
the ephemeral can occur, during other seasons there would be no 
ephemeral flow.

For example, when tagged  ephemeral=summer the ephemeral flow can only 
take place in summer, thus the ephemeral flow is restricted to one season."

Is that clear?

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Note that ephemeral=yes does not mean that a flow will occur every year.
It only says that any flow will be of short duration and will be dry 
most of the time.

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