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

[Andrew Harvey]

Back in 2017 this was discussed on the list
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2017-March/031595.html and
the outcome of that was I added water=stream_pool to the wiki at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water#Natural_features. Is there
any reason to change this now? I think continuing to tag these as
natural=water + water=stream_pool is best as currently documented and in
use.

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 05:13, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Discussion on the current reservoir proposal[1] (which seeks to define the
> distinction between reservoirs, lakes, and ponds) has brought up the
> question of stream/plunge pools[2,3], and how they fit into the lake/pond
> definitions.
>
> I've come up with the following text:
>
> "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."
>
> Is this distinction satisfactory?  How are folks tagging these features?
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Reservoir
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_pool
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_pool
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