[OSM-talk] Mapping canals

[Stephen Gower]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:43:25AM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> > Amenities
> > ---------
> > New tag value: amenity=sanitary_station
> 
> Sanitary station is a really misleading (but sadly widespread) term.  
> Better to group all the constituent services  
> (amenity=pumpout;water_point), and to come up with a separate tag for  
> what we refer to as "Elsan disposal" (a drain where you can empty your  
> Porta-Potti!). amenity=poo_hole could be misconstrued.

  That reminds me of something else I meant to add, which you've
  partically gone into here - nto all "sanitary_stations" are equal. 
  You've mentioned some difference, but even with pumpout there's the
  question of if it's self-operated or not.
  
  s