On 01/09/2010 21:42, Anthony wrote:
(While looking at this I also noticed we have barrier=ditch and waterway=ditch. That also sucks, unless there's some distinction between the two.
Presumably that's different wiki editors arriving at the same feature from different angles? I'd say there were exactly the same thing. Where I grew up "ditch" was the generic word for a semi-natural or artificial waterway much smaller than a river, often used as a field boundary. Named ditches there are often called "Xxx Dike" (same root word as "ditch" I suspect)
Which is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:IMG_6784.JPG supposed to be?)
Personally I'd map it as either waterway=stream or waterway=drain, depending on how far it is along the line between natural feature that's been widened or culverted at one end (stream) or entirely artifical feature dug to drain line (drain). I wouldn't use barrier=ditch because (at least as of last year) hardly anyone else does - http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/barrier/ditch .
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