[Tagging] Definition of lake/pond as applied to stream/plunge pools

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 18:13, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> "Occasionally a river or stream will form a stream pool or plunge pool,
> which are bodies of water that naturally occur along the course of the
> waterway. These waterbodies may either be tagged as a lake or (usually)
> pond if they are named or significant in size, or else they can be simply
> conflated with the river."
>

I think you need to expand a little on how to "conflate" a pool with a
river.  The
disadvantage of doing so is that the pool then cannot have a name assigned.

Also, there are tidal pools (which may be outside the scope of the
proposal).

Is this distinction satisfactory?  How are folks tagging these features?
>

I've been tagging them as ponds, for lack of anything better.  Well,
until a few days ago I didn't realize the distinction between ponds
and pools so I was tagging them as ponds because I didn't know
they weren't ponds but pools.  If I'd had to map bigger ones
I'd have tagged them as lakes.

-- 
Paul
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