[Tagging] dry swamps

[Greg Troxel]

Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> writes:

> In which case the OSM meaning of 'wetland' must change to incorporate dry as well as wet.

We need to adopt the professional definitions, not rewrite them roughly
and not really correctly.  Not sure which you are in favor of.

>>   Or if there are
>> trees and AU wetland scientists call it swamp because of the
>> every-few-years flood being dominant, I'm ok with natural=swamp.

> ? flood dominate? Most of the time the 'dry' is dominate.

By dominant I meant the factor that controls the type of plants, not
what is true most of the the time.  That's what dominant means in this
area, as I understand it.