[Tagging] Tagging sewage treatment basins

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 17:21:13 UTC 2020


How should sewage treatment facilities be tagged, then?

Isn't sewage 99% water?

I think that most sewage treatment facilities in the USA include open
settling basins and I would use landuse=basin or water=basin +
natural=water for these: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/420075503

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:55 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Dec 17, 2020, 08:02 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:
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> On 16. Dec 2020, at 17:52, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
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> You still have to distinguish marine water (outside of the
> natural=coastline) from inland waters, and distinguishing rivers from lakes
> is very important for proper rendering of many maps.
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> and it seems landuse=reservoir is used for sewage as well:
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/reservoir_type=sewage
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> is this appropriate for natural=water?
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> No.
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