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

Paul Allen pla16021 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 22:39:30 UTC 2020


On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 22:30, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Carrying on from those, there are other named river features such as Bend
> & Reach, which we currently have no way of mapping.
>

Bends are mapped by the river being bendy. :)  I assume you mean we have
no way of naming them.  From a quick look at wikipedia, it seems they
may be navigationally important.

Another one that comes to mind is when this "pool" in the river is a
> designated swimming hole? I've seen them mapped as a leisure=swimming_pool
> in the middle of the river, but that just looks weird!
>

Yeah, we probably need something on top of however we decide to map pools
to indicate if they are usable for swimming.

It's all getting too complicated!

-- 
Paul
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