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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

Dave, I think we are as usual in violent agreement here.

>From a purely pragmatic "getting things done in the diverse community we
have" perspective, I am deliberately separating the idea that one tagging
is deprecated in favor of another tagging, from any potential future
mechanics of how to actually replace one tag with another.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 2:16 PM Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> On 03/01/2022 14:30, Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:15 AM Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> There will be no creation of new errors, just
>> existing ones moved to a different tag. Automatic edits will always
>> produce fewer errors than anyone mistyping or selecting the incorrect
>> choice from a pop down menu when editing individual objects.
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> For those of you familiar with my activities regarding rivers, it should
> come as no surprise that I looked into doing this for reservoirs (at least
> starting in the United States).  The main problem is that there is a vast
> number of objects that are mis-tagged as something else, typically a basin,
> or a water treatment pond, or a cattle tank.
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> I'm unsure why you think the affects transferring landuse=reservoir tag to
> natural=water, water=reservoir.
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> In addition, there are some major hangover effects from old imports -
> 40,000 landuse=reservoir GNIS nodes in the US that need to get merged,
> traced, or deleted.
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> Again, I see this as irrelevant to your proposal.
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> Cheers
> DaveF
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