[Tagging] Ponds are not observable on the ground

[pangoSE]

Hi

IMO pond should not be mapped because it is not observable on the 
ground. How do you determine if it is
"artificially created"/"man made"?
See:

A pond <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pond>: a body of standing water, 
man-made in most cases, that is usually smaller than a lake.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dpond

Lake: a body of relatively still fresh or salt water, localized in a 
basin that is surrounded by land. Artificially created lakes are tagged 
aswater <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water>=pond 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dpond>orwater 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water>=reservoir 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dreservoir>. 
Intermittent lakes (which disappear seasonally) should be tagged 
withintermittent 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:intermittent>=yes; salt lakes — 
withsalt 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:salt>=yes.https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dlake 


As it stands right now in the wiki I suggest we either deprecate the tag 
completely or change the definition to something that is observable on 
the ground.

WDYT?

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