[Tagging] Quarry lakes

[Warin]

On 27/12/20 8:26 am, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> On 26. Dec 2020, at 21:33, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 116 uses of man_made=water.
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>> No uses of the unnatural=*.
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>> No uses of supernatural=*.
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> there’s landuse=reservoir which has only 11% natural=water tags. 
> That’s maybe an argument against my point of natural water being 
> applied to any water body surface, but as the wiki says: “ Used to tag 
> an inland area of water. The type of water body can be specified with 
> water <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water>=*. Note that 
> despite key name it is also used for artificial structures like moats, 
> basins of a wastewater treatment plants, canals etc, including areas 
> covered with water only intermittently.” so basically some artificial 
> water areas are tagged with natural, and some aren’t.
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The key natural is used for both 'natural' and 'unnatural' (man 
effected) features. It is a very poor key name as itm does not reflect 
the OSM use.
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