[Tagging] Rapids (whitewater) on rivers

[Joseph Eisenberg]

In the year 2020 waterway=rapids has been added a couple hundred times, and
the other two tags whitewater:section_grade and whitewater:rapid_grade have
been used about 100 times each:
https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/whitewater:rapid_grade/&***/whitewater:section_grade/&***/waterway/rapids
(zoom in to the most recent yet)

I think both tagging methods have their use. The tag waterway=rapids is
great to add to a node to specify that there are rapids here, and the
others are good for expert kayakers and rafters who are able to assess the
rapid grade.

I don't know enough about the subject to make a proposal to clear things
up, but the existing tags seem to be fine.

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:35 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Dec 16, 2020, 19:27 by kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com:
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> The last time I looked, there was no non-deprecated way to map the
> information that I had.
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> That is sign of bad tagging scheme.
>
> I now see that @jeisenbe has restored the `waterway=rapids` tag to the
> Wiki.
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> Is it enough?
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> I asked here on the mailing list, and the only answers that I got were
> along the lines of "then don't map it."  So for several years I haven't
> attempted to map rapids. The ones I know of and want to render, I maintain
> separately from OSM, because the previous discussion had caused me to label
> this feature mentally as, "OSM doesn't want this mapped."
>
> :( Hopefully this can be fixed so this will not happen.
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