[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

[Sergio Manzi]

If you think it is important to differentiate between lined vs. unlined minor waterways (/and I'm not objecting to that/), I guess the best option would be to use a specific tag (lined=* ?)

IMHO relying on the tagger knowledge of the OSM dictionary semantic subtleties (/which sometimes happen to collide with other English dictionaries/) is a bit too optimistic.

Sergio


On 2019-02-01 22:50, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 11:51, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It appears in the descriptions that a 'ditch' can be used as a 'drain'. So why have a tag 'drain'?
>
>
> Really only to differentiate between lined & unlined, which I /think/ may be important / needed?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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