[Talk-us] NHD Scripts

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Theodore Book <tbook at libero.it> wrote:

> To be thorough, I think we would have to break it up.  For example, we
> list a Canal/Ditch (33600) as waterway=canal, but the OSM tag is only
> for use on ways, while the NHD applies it to areas.  At the same time,
> the NHD point info gives dams as points, but the OSM waterway=dam is
> only for lines and areas.


The only reason the OSM tags are "for" certain things is because no one has
gone in and changed the wiki page yet.

In the examples you gave, I think it would make sense to change the OSM
"definition" (as much as there is one) of the tags to mean what we want them
to mean.
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