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

Brian M. Sperlongano zelonewolf at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 05:13:04 UTC 2020


I could see value in tagging them separately.  I.e. "I'd like to swim in a
small pool with a waterfall".

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 12:10 AM Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 at 10:26, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Isn't that a plunge pool?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_pool
>> I didn't even know plunge pools where a thing until Kevin Kenny
>> mentioned them.  He knows everything.
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> Probably, but per wikipedia (again I'm no expert on this) "Plunge pools,
> or plunge basins, are stream pools formed by the action of waterfalls", so
> plunge pools are just a specific type of stream pool, When I originally
> documented stream_pool on the wiki after the mailing list discussion the
> intent was that plunge pools would be tagged as water=stream_pool.
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