[OSM-talk] RFC - lake

[Michael Collinson]

At 03:46 AM 1/11/2008, Robin Paulson wrote:
>is there any reason why this proposal has so many opposers?
>
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Lake
>
>it seems a logical one to me, we need to differentiate between lakes
>and rivers, canals, etc.

Yes, probably logical if we started from scratch but today it exactly 
duplicates natural=water which is very, very widely used - 9421 times 
according to the Statistics link 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:natural, though I suspect 
that is out of date.  There is also natural=coastline, so there is 
another logic too.

Mike