[Tagging] Deprecation - waterway=riverbank vs water=river

Mark Wagner mark+osm at carnildo.com
Fri Feb 12 09:18:56 UTC 2021


On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:56:11 +1000
Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 20:49, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are also intermittent waterways and seasonal waterways.
> >  
> 
> Adding to Warin's comment to mention a thing that wouldn't often
> (ever?) appear in Western European mapping ...
> 
> How do you map a river course that in the wet season is 100's of m
> wide, but in the dry season may only be 5m wide / a series of puddles
> / not there at all?

The one in Phoenix appears to have been mapped as "natural=sand", and
having seen it in person, I can't say that's too wrong.

-- 
Mark



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