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

[Michael Patrick]

There are certainly instances, legally defined, where either tag might be
useful. In the State of Montana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law , for instance,
areas between the ordinary high water mark ( not to be confused with the
'flood plain'
https://s3.amazonaws.com/visit-big-sky/craft/pdfs/Stream-Side-Access-MT.pdf?mtime=20181114055056
) are public access, and growing up in that area, what we colloquially
called the 'bank' was certainly not necessarily the edge of the water
itself, since that changed from day to day and certainly seasonally, even
if not in flood stage. And Montana isn't the only state with some version
of this, and Oregon has similar laws regarding vehicle access on coastal
beaches.
*" Ordinary high-water mark means the line that water impresses on land by
covering it for sufficient time to cause different characteristics below
the line, such as deprivation of the soil of substantially all its
terrestrial vegetation and destruction of its value for agricultural
vegetation. Flood plains next to streams are considered to be above the
ordinary high-water mark, and are not open for recreation without
permission"*

>From " *Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Perspective, *Access to Public
Lands Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Perspective" at
https://player.slideplayer.com/88/15893622/slides/slide_10.jpg and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Stream_Access_Law#/media/File:CampingJeffersonRiverOct2008.JPG
and
https://s3.amazonaws.com/visit-big-sky/craft/pdfs/Stream-Side-Access-MT.pdf?mtime=20181114055056

( and, at least in the USA, these banks are 'mappable' from public data, I
am currently doing that along the Little Missouri http://bit.ly/2NpgLHi ,
and this geomorphology is common along the Eastern front ranges of the
mountains in North America from the arctic circle into Mexico ).

Michael Patrick

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