On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:14:15 +0900 johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 2, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > suggests replacement of > > waterway=wadi and waterway=drystream > > with > > waterway=river or stream > This is idiotic. > > I’m going to start tagging Interstate 5 in San Diego as an > intermittent river that just happens to be a motorway 99.95 percent > of it’s life. I have hydroplaned down it for a good mile or so, so > I’m going to say that is good enough to constitute an intermittent > river. > > > A wash/wadi is a feature created /changed by water but used and > navigated as a dry feature. it very very rarely has water. > > I’m guessing the people who are interested in tagging > “drystreams” (the fisrt time I have heard that), are not really > familiar with what a wadi or a wash is, nor have spent time in them > during their dominant dry state (nor seen them catastrophically > flood).
Where wiki recommends converting all waterway=wadi to waterway=river or stream with intermittent=yes? On http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dwadi there is "For intermittent waterways use waterway=river/waterway=stream + intermittent=yes. For valleys natural=valley" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
