[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

Eugene Podshivalov yaugenka at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 22:48:57 UTC 2019


Any river starts as a waterway=stream which is some kind of a wooden leg,
isn't it?

Cheers,
Eugene

вт, 19 февр. 2019 г. в 01:31, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>:

>
>
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 06:11, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 19:50, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Mo., 18. Feb. 2019 um 19:41 Uhr schrieb Eugene Podshivalov <
>>> yaugenka at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would not generally do it, but I agree at some point you might ask the
>>> question if that is still a river or really a canal close to where once was
>>> a river...
>>>
>>
> I'd agree not to change rivers to canals etc unless there's been such a
> massive, dramatic change to the waterway, that anybody seeing it for the
> first time is going to say "Wow, what happened here"? Think Panama Canal v
> the natural river that it followed.
>
> I've dealt with a few like that.  It's not clear which is the best option
>> even at the end of a waterway,
>> but what do you do if it's in the middle?  It's like having a wooden leg
>> with a real foot at the end
>> of it...
>>
>
> Or swap it round to a real knee in the middle of a wooden leg!
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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