[Tagging] Rapids (whitewater) on rivers

[Philip Barnes]

On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 17:08 +0000, ael via Tagging wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 08:29:52AM -0800, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
> > Another argument against use of hazard=* for rapids is that the
> > hazard key
> > has been used almost always with highway=* features, not waterways.
> 
> Not in my part of the world. Why try to restrict the scope
> artificially?
> Hazard in British English (and all other dialects, I suspect) is a
> general term with no particular connotation with roads or even paths.
> Why force us to invent a new tag "hazard_not_on_a_highway" ???
> 
Very true, but if you a a canoeist then rapids are an attraction not a
hazard at all.

Phil (trigpoint)