[Talk-ht] waterway=stream + vehicle=yes?

[Hans van Wijk]

Hi again and sorry for the empty reply before.

Jochen Plumeyer on 14 February 2010 18:03
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Dom 14 Feb 2010, Hans van Wijk wrote:
> > Michael Buege wrote
> > > Would be good, to hear more about this fact from somebody 
> who have 
> > > better knowledge of the Haitian driving habits.
> >
> > Yes, I found more situations on the imagery that would benefit from 
> > someone who's been there, but the car in the riverbed on the image 
> > made it pretty believable that cars actually do drive 
> there, didn't it?
> 
> I can confirm the habit of using riverbeds as roads if possible.
> 
> I think it is possible, that the quakes have densified the 
> sand/ sediments in the riverbeds, and hence it is ironically 
> much safer than normal (without
> quake) to drive in them.

We could benefit from some tag that identifies a river that dries out during
dry season and I believe 'wadi' is a good candidate. I saw a 'wadibank'
already somewhere, which also makes for a good waterway value when it
concerns a closed way. See also wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi

Michael you wrote earlier: 
> Jan Tappenbeck and I talked about this issue last week, without a solution
how to handle this.
Is this in the archives or was it face to face?

I also comment on John's contribution:

John wrote:
> I do not see why we cannot have two traces in the same place (or with 
> a small offset). Hopefully we will be able to identify the entrance 
> and exit of the 'roadway'. I am sure that these 'roadways' would be
seasonal.
>
> Sometimes hiking trails (my expertise) will follow a streambed for 
> a while and for the sake of continuity, this is how it is handled.

Sure this makes for a solution, but I can't shake the feeling that it's
wrong as long as they aren't two separate ways.