[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

Eugene Podshivalov yaugenka at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 22:50:30 UTC 2019


*a wooden head*, to be more precise )

Cheers,
Eugene

вт, 19 февр. 2019 г. в 01:48, Eugene Podshivalov <yaugenka at gmail.com>:

> 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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