[Tagging] Drain vs ditch

[Marc Gemis]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:03 PM François Lacombe
<fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Then we'll obtain waterway=canal for artificial waterways whatever their usage and waterway=river, stream and ditch for natural or not-lined watercourses.

The wiki page for ditch [1] explicitly states that it is an artificial waterway:

"Use waterway=ditch for simple narrow artificial waterways"


[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dditch


regards

m.