[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

[Eugene Podshivalov]

There are a lot of straightened rivers and streams all over the world.
Would it make sense to tag the straightened sections as canal/ditch/drain
rather than river/stream?

Cheers,
Eugene

пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 22:07, Eugene Podshivalov <yaugenka at gmail.com>:

> пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 19:19, Hufkratzer <hufkratzer at gmail.com>:
>
>> This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the presets,
>> otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run.  As far as I
>> know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage declines. Currently
>> its usage increases steadily. How do you intend to change that? What is the
>> incentive for the mapper to use "ditch" instead of "drain" from now on? I
>> am not even sure that most mappers will notice the change on the wiki
>> pages.
>
> In Belarus we have 45366 ditches and 93320 drains mapped. 90% of those
> drains are drainage ditches (used for wet land drainage) because we have
> swamps and wetlands everywhere.
> You are right saying that the usage of "drain" increases, but as you see
> from the statistics the usage is upside down because people perceive
> "drainage ditches" and "drains" as one and the same thing. So why do we
> need two tags for one and the same thing?
>
> Cheers,
> Eugene
>
>
> пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 19:19, Hufkratzer <hufkratzer at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 10.02.2019 14:57, Eugene Podshivalov wrote:
>>
>> [...}
>> *Variant #2*
>> Combine "ditch" and "drain" tags into one.
>> [...}
>> Personally I lean toward variant 2 [...}
>>
>>
>> This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the presets,
>> otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run.  As far as I
>> know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage declines. Currently
>> its usage increases steadily. How do you intend to change that? What is the
>> incentive for the mapper to use "ditch" instead of "drain" from now on? I
>> am not even sure that most mappers will notice the change on the wiki pages.
>>
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