2012/10/1 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: >> >> natural=water >> >> - wiki page doesn't specify, but details, examples and name imply the >> use for a natural feature > > > IMHO natural=water is flawed, for several reasons: it is not a > geographical feature (that would be natural=lake, etc.), but it is > also practically used for all kinds of superficial water (and if one > insists on "natural=from mother nature": water is almost always > "natural", the rare cases of "artificial" water aren't probably > something that will be tagged in OSM). There is an attempt to further > specifiy natural=water with a key water=? (where one of the values is > reflection_pool IIRR) >
Of course there is no 'artificial' water. But following this logic, we can also tag a pedestrian area with natural=cobble_stones. It's the enclosure of the water that is man made and mostly even the existence of water in that spot. I would rather use a man_made=reflection_pool without the natural=* addition. > > >> Do you know any other tag fitting small scale, urban, man made >> enclosures of water (possibly fed by a fountain or well)? > > > if you want to be generic like this, natual=water is your tag IMHO. If > you are interested in a particular feature, additionally tag this > (e.g. amenity=fountain, water_well, ...) > > >> Or just keeping it with amenity=fountain mapped as an area? Or tag both? > > > well, a fountain might consist of parts covered with water and others > made of rock, metal or s.th. else, and there might even be no water at > all (any more), e.g. here is a nice monumental fountain by famous > architect Bernini in a small town that was destroyed (and remained > ruins since then) in 1799 by the French: > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canale_Monterano_Bernini.JPG I can't follow you here: You say that natural=water is flawed, that there might be fountains without water and that a fountain might consist of several materials besides water. And still you recommend to tag the whole area as natural=water, amenity=fountain? Regards, Chaos _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
