[Tagging] Tagging sewage treatment basins

Brian M. Sperlongano zelonewolf at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 17:43:32 UTC 2020


I knew them as sewage treatment ponds, but apparently there's a name for
them:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_stabilization_pond

I feel like this a separate class of object that deserves its own tag,
either within or separate from natural=water, or perhaps even subclassed as
water=basin+basin=waste?

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 12:24 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>> sent from a phone
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>> On 16. Dec 2020, at 17:52, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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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?
>>
>> No.
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