[Tagging] waterway=artificial documentation

François Lacombe fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com
Fri Aug 30 18:16:29 UTC 2019


Hi all,

I've notice that waterway=artificial is currently used more than 16k times.
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/waterway=artificial

This value doesn't appear to be documented, does someone know what is its
real meaning please?
Only this DataItem is availabe :
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q19211

Efforts has been made to distinguish open flow and pipe flow waterways and
waterway=artificial may fit in both regimes.
It's an occasion to see if a more precise value is missing to cover those
situations.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Waterways#Artificial_waterways:_pressurised_vs_Open-flow_Waterways
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway#Values

Many objects are located in an area in the US, like this one :
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/46314476
It seems that waterway=river would be more suitable for this one.

All the best

François
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