Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before we vote, shouldn't we try to clean up the proposal? E.g. > there > > is this sentence: "Hint: If the waterway starts as a stream and > > becomes larger, then use the tag of the largest waterway (e.g. > > river)." > > Well, almost all rivers start small and become bigger ;-), but > despite > > being small, don't they already start as rivers at their spring? > > No, because the OSM definition of 'river' is width. (As opposed to > languages like French which distinguish between waterways that empty > in the sea and those that empty into other rivers). > > The proposal looks pretty sensible to me. I just wish there was a > meaningful process we could follow. Probably what we really want to do > is deprecate any alternative tagging schemes, and direct people to > this one. > I take it, then, that there are some watercourses tagged as streams, but named XXX River, and there are some watercourses tagged as rivers, but named XXX Stream or XXX Creek?
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