[OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

[Cartinus]

On Thursday 26 August 2010 19:52:02 Pieren wrote:
> Some people decided recently 

Those some people are the Dutch who are active on the OSM forum.

As you might know the Netherlands is a very wet country. So we have many 
culverts in the country. Not surprisingly the Dutch word for such a water 
carrying pipe below the road is commonly known by average Dutch people and 
not just Dutch civil engineers. This word is "duiker". Plugging this into 
Google translate [1].

AFAIK how to tag a "duiker" was first discussed on the Dutch mailinglist over 
a year ago. The conclusion was that it had to be something with the word 
culvert.

Sometime last year on talk or tagging there was discussion about culverts. 
IIRC you opposed special tagging for them then too. Afterwards Andy seems to 
have added culvert to this wiki page [2].

Today there was discussion on the Dutch forum about "duikers". Then one of the 
participants made what was hidden on the Water_features page more visible by 
giving it its own page. Despite it being hidden so far, there are already 597 
culvert=yes tags in the database.

[1] <http://translate.google.nl/#nl|en|duiker>
[2] <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Water_features#Navigations>

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m.v.g.,
Cartinus