[Tagging] Waterway equivalent of noexit=yes?

[Joseph Eisenberg]

Would waterway=spreads only be used for intermittent streams/rivers where
the waterway spreads out and evaporates on the surface?

If the water appears to sink into sand, gravel or fractured karst rock,
would we want a different tag instead, e.g. waterway=sink?

I understand that natural=cave_entrance can also be used when a waterway
drops into a sinkhole or other open cave entrance, often found in limestone
(karst) geology areas.

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:52 AM Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 17:07, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> To clarify it for me, the a “waterway=spread” tag would be used on a node
>> (rendered possibly as an asterisk) or on a way? Or either depending the
>> situation?
>>
>
> I'd say "spreads" rather than "spread" because that's the term OS uses.
> I've only
> ever seen OS use it on the terminal node of a waterway.  More of a
> crow's-foot
> symbol than an asterisk, usually, but an asterisk works.  I have no idea
> how
> you'd render it sensibly on a way.  I assume you're thinking of something
> like a
> very sandy river bed where the water sometimes gets further than other
> times,
> depending on conditions.  I'd be happy enough with a single node, because
> that's better than we have now.  If you can justify applying it to a way
> and
> think there's a need then do so, but if you're just trying to keep QA tools
> happy...
>
> --
> Paul
>
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