[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Tristan Scott wrote:
>Sent: 01 September 2008 3:37 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch
>
>This is a request for comments (my first, so let me know if i've done
>it wrong!) on my waterway/ditch.
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Ditch
>
>mainly as there's a large area of marshes around where I live, and the
>canal waterway tag is completely inappropriate for the still overgrown
>drainage ditches (too wide to jump, too overgrown and narrow to
>navigate, and not even remotely canal-like)
>I can get organised with a picture of the ditch if that's necessary.
>Note that ditchs are occasionally "slubbed" out, but every ditch i
>know of is more than 50 years old - so it's not as if they're
>seasonal.
>
>oh, and they're on Ordnance Survey maps as thin blue lines, if that's
>relevant.

Map Features has always had a waterway=drain tag which was always intended
for drains and ditches. I've been using that when I come across one.

Cheers

Andy