On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:16:22AM +0300, Dave Swarthout wrote: > I think redefining waterway=dam is gonna be a hard sell for most Americans. > But now thanks to this list I understand why some reservoirs I've worked > with in Thailand have had the name of the dam applied to the water behind > them as well. As you probably know, many reservoirs in the U.S. have names > that are different from the names of the dam that formed them, Lake Mead > and the Hoover Dam, Lake Roosevelt and the Grand Coolee Dam, are just two > of the better known ones. The dam and the water impounded behind it usually > have different names. > > Even though I can agree that dams are man_made there are roughly 200K uses > of the waterway=dam tag. You have a lot of convincing ahead of you.
not all of the dams are man_made, beavers are busy builders. Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
