Please, no "intermittent=ephemeral". Key intermittent was defined to have
only a single valid value,
turning it into free-form tag is a bad idea.

Maybe intermittent=yes, intermittent:type=ephemeral?

2015-01-17 13:47 GMT+01:00 Richard Z. <ricoz....@gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 02:44:27PM -0800, Tod Fitch wrote:
> > Since the current term wadi can mean something more than the actual
> watercourse, why not drop it and use "ephemeral=yes" or
> "intermittent=ephemeral" on waterway=* to indicate that it carries water
> much less often than a waterway tagged with "intermittent=yes"?
>
> in principle yes. We need a value to indicate that surface water is
> intermittent or rare but there is a persistent underground waterflow
> following the riverbed which is a frequent feature of wadi's (unlike
> washes where this seems rare)
>
> Richard
>
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