[Tagging] RFC #2: Lake, pond, and reservoir proposal

[Clifford Snow]

It's a new year and only one talk entry as far as I know since you reopened
this proposal.

Like Imagico the lake/pond (and river/creek) tagging has never made sense
to me. Imagico has other issues with lake/pond, but I'd like to see the
tagging dropped. Because this is a spatial database the surface area of a
water body can easily be calculated. If anywhere has a lake/pond definition
based on surface size then they can easily quantify the waterbody. Since
I've never seen such a definition I'd recommend dropping the tag
altogether. However, I think lake/pond should be outside of the scope of
the proposal.

Happy New Year,
Clifford

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 8:07 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am re-starting an RFC for my proposal[1] for lakes, ponds, and
> reservoirs.  This proposal deprecates landuse=reservoir in favor of
> natural=water + water=reservoir, and adopts improved definitions for lake,
> pond, and reservoir.  This proposal was first proposed[2] around this time
> last year, in which I received and incorporated significant feedback.
> Given the large gap in time since this was last discussed, I am opening a
> second RFC period in order to allow for any renewed discussion.
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Reservoir
> [2]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-December/057073.html
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