[Tagging] Is waterway=riverbank an 'Old scheme' ?

[Warin]

Humm
I would tend to just mark the river .. not the bank at all. But..

However the river bank would be seasonal?
So possibly a seasonal tagging would suit?

so one area with seasonal=summer;autumn;winter (or dry_season)
and another area with seasonal=spring (or wet_season)



On 08/09/18 09:09, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> > What should we be marking as the "riverbank" - where the water is 
> visible "now", or the defined limits of where it spreads out to in the 
> wet season?
>
> This is an excellent question that applies to Alaska's braided rivers 
> as well. As they are without man-made flood controls or artificial 
> embankments, they run full in the spring, sometimes tearing out trees 
> and even small islands as they go, but shrink to a trickle in the 
> summer and winter. Customarily, we map the maximum extent of the river 
> as riverbank but that leaves a very mistaken impression when one 
> observes such rivers in the summer.
>
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 5:56 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 05:40, Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ricoz.osm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         everything can be handled with waterway=riverbanks at least as
>         well.
>
>     Question regarding riverbanks & where they should be marked, thanks?
>
>     Was doing some HOT mapping a little while back in Nepal & the area
>     I was working on was surrounding a river - sorry, I can't remember
>     the exact location?
>
>     The imagery I was working of had apparently been taken during the
>     dry season as the actual river channel with water in it was ~30 -
>     50 m's wide. But the wet season river (or possibly flood?) channel
>     was very obviously ~500 - 700 m's wide.
>
>     What should we be marking as the "riverbank" - where the water is
>     visible "now", or the defined limits of where it spreads out to in
>     the wet season?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Graeme
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