(I originally replied to the talk list, rather than to the tagging list.) -------Original Email------- Subject :RE: Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction >From :mailto:j...@jfeldredge.com Date :Wed Sep 01 17:42:37 America/Chicago 2010
Barrier=ditch would be logical for a ditch that is intended to keep people or animals out, but is not intended for drainage. Examples would be a dry moat around a castle, or a ha-ha (a dry trench used as a livestock barrier). -------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] Waterway direction >From :mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Date :Wed Sep 01 16:13:31 America/Chicago 2010 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 . _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
