[Tagging] Irrigation: usage=irrigation vs irrigation=yes [Was Irrigation: ditches, canals and drains]

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 09:55, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 2) Irrigation=yes
>
> With this tag, it would be possible to also use "drainage=yes", so a
> canal used for both drainage and irrigation could be "waterway=canal"
> + "irrigation=yes" + "drainage=yes" - this leads to using an extra
> tag, but doesn't require any semicolon-separated values.
>
>
> I originally started writing a proposal for "usage=irrigation" and
> "usage=drainage", but when I checked the details, I realized that
> "irrigation=yes" and "drainage=yes" might be more likely to be
> approved.
>

That it was I was also thinking

waterway=canal / drain / ditch
navigation=yes/no
irrigation=yes/no
drainage=yes/no

KISS!


> To me either tag would be preferred over service=irrigation, so I
> agree with deprecating it, once we get an alternative approved.
>


Yep, usage=irrigation is much nicer than service=

Thanks

Graeme
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