[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

[Warin]

On 19/02/19 21:21, Tony Shield wrote:
>
> I'm not in favour of combining ditch and drain. My mind sees a ditch 
> as a dug-out stream which may flow into a stream or flow into a drain, 
> the drain being a much larger flow. I see drains as  having water flow 
> several metres wide but a ditch as less than a metre of surface flow.
>

Those differences can be mapped using the key width.

Other than the width .. what other differences do you see?

To me;

a drain is a ditch that only provides for water removal. Some of these 
are small - less that 1 meter wide. The direction of water flow will 
tell you if it is a supply or a removal (drain) system.

a ditch could provide water supply or removal and possibly in some cases 
either depending on water levels?

> TonyS
>
> On 11/02/2019 16:18, Hufkratzer wrote:
>> 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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