[Tagging] Features underwater (inside reservoirs)

[Paul Allen]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 19:24, Cornelis <cornelis.H at web.de> wrote:

>
> • According to the wiki it is not only in use with water(ish) tags. Some
> examples are listed and ice_rink is one of them.
>

Has physics changed that much since I was at school?  Ice is no longer
a form of water?  Must be all that quantum mechanics or dark oojamaflips. :)


> In this wiki entry seasonal is listed as possible tag, too. So seasonal
> could apply here in general.
>

It could, and maybe one day routers will take it into account.  Or maybe
not.

• The bridge does not fall dry every autumn but only in hot years with
> little rain, thus in the concrete situation seasonal seems not the best tag
> from my point of view.
>

Yeah, it's too erratic for seasonal to be a good description, even if it
were
applicable.


> Intermittent is more strictly bound to water, so that won't apply either.
>

The bridge is under water, but the bridge itself is not intermittent.  The
route
over the bridge is intermittent, but it's not a water route.

>
> I think I will go with the conditional and a free-form text. In my eyes,
> that accords with the wiki documentation.
>

I think it's the best option.  And works reasonably well with any router
that
handles conditionals even if it doesn't understand the condition: by default
you cannot get from A to B by crossing the bridge.

-- 
Paul
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