[OSM-talk] intermittent streams

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:57 AM, James Stewart <j.k.stewart at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> I cannot find any note in the documentation for intermittent streams.
> Usually they are marked with a dashed blue line. Has anyone discussed
> this, or uses a tagging system (I cannot find anything in tag watch).
> Do we need type= intermittent, perennial , ephemeral, with the default
> being Perennial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_stream
> The same would apply to ditches, and even some rivers.


As part of the NHD import [0] in the US, I've been applying
river=intermittent/perennial,etc. when the data is available.

[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NHD
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