> On 7/01/2011 9:19 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > What do you think about waterway=aqueduct ? > > Around here there are quite some historical aqueducts (e.g. [1]). Most > > are ruins, but they are still impressive. I tag them > > waterway=aqueduct, ruin=yes Some are bridge-like (arches), but others > > are solid underneath. > Hmm. It could get increasingly difficult to objectively distinguish > between all the different types of man-made water channel: canal, drain, > aqueduct. (Incidentally, taginfo shows 40,000 uses of > "waterway=artificial" - anyone know what that is?) > > I guess the difference in the above is the purpose: transport, > stormwater, and drinking water respectively. How is one supposed to tag > an irrigation channel?
Around here, waterway=ditch. This completely sidesteps the question of wider irrigation channels, but I don't have to worry about those since they don't exist out here. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
