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

[Mike Thompson]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 10:54 AM Adam Franco <adamfranco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reading through the proposal I see one particular case node covered and
> another that isn't clear related to farm infrastructure.
>
> A common feature of farms near me are "manure lagoons
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_lagoon>". These normally are
> located near barns or feed-lots and have liquid sewage piped into them.
> The contents are often stored for some period before being pumped into
> tankers which spray the contents on fields as fertilizer. According to the
> description of water=wastewater
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:water%3Dwastewater>, it is
> unclear if natural=water+water=wastewater is the appropriate tagging for
> these "manure lagoons". They are usually constructed as basins with no
> outflow other than possibly an emergency overflow pipe.
>
> I was actually wondering about manure lagoons myself.  IMHO it would be
ideal if we would have only one high level tag for all surface water, e.g.
natural=water. That way we can map it, and then later add more detailed
tags (either because initially we didn't know what kind of water it was [a
city person might not know about manure lagoons, but they can tell there is
some brownish water there], or because there was not yet an established tag
for such a sub-feature).
Mike
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