[Tagging] Seasonal, intermittent, and ephemeral water tags

[Mateusz Konieczny]

26. May 2018 10:17 by 61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>:


>         > On 26/05/18 17:18, Mateusz Konieczny      wrote:
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>>       26. May 2018 09:02 by >> 61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>> :
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>>>         >>> On 21/05/18 07:57, Warin wrote:
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>>>>           >>>> On 20/05/18 18:33, Mateusz            Konieczny wrote:
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>>>>>  19.            May 2018 04:33 by >>>>> 61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>>>>> :
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>>>>>> The              intermittent tag continues to be confused with seasonal.
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>>>>>>               Possibly this is because some want to use it to indicate              that a follow is both seasonal and intermittent?
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>>>>> At least in my case it was like this:
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>>>>> - I discovered intermittent tag
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>>>>> - later I encountered someone claiming that seasonal              water flow 
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>>>>> - I checked intermittent definition in some sources and              found no 
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>>>>>   confirmation that "intermittent" excludes cyclic              changes
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>>>         If 'intermittent' is taken as the same as seasonal then why have        both keys? 
>>>         To me they are not the same. 
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>> every seasonal=yes is also intermittent=yes
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>> some intermittent=yes are not seasonal
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>     So ... why have seasonal?




To add detail about characteristics how water state is changing, similar to proposed ephemeral tag?




Though I ma not sure what was the motivation of people who invented seasonal tag,

maybe it is documented on wiki.

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