[OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

[Lester Caine]

On 20/06/16 08:54, Tomas Straupis wrote:
>   Accepted by 16(!) wiki editors but ignored by thousands of mappers.
>   5 years after acceptance according to tagwatch:
>   "new" tag usage
>   water=reservoir 79937
>   water=riverbank 1085
> 
>   "old" tag usage
>   landuse=reservoir 387793
>   waterway=riverbank 293319

The very first check of a 'reservoir' may well fail. One does not tag an
artificially created body of water as 'natural' and many of the 'water'
extensions to natural=water directly describe man made features. And the
Idea that natural=water should wrap what are quite clearly man made
waterway features just reinforces that and while the effects are small,
many parts of the world even 'coastline' is now a man made construction.

But the 'tags' list is probably the place to open a discussion on this
... not that I bother following it ;)

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