I agree about the tag water=pool. Potentially very misleading. Stream_pool seems okay, or perhaps waterway_pool to avoid a possible semantic conflict when applying the tag to rivers. Are there plans to add "riffles" as well? A riffle is, in American English at least, a fisherman's term for a shallower place in a river or stream where the water runs faster than normal. A riffle is akin to a rapid, only much smaller and slower running. Folks fish the pools and riffles for trout, salmon, etc.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Mark Bradley <ethnicfoodisgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think just "water=pool" is a bit short and potentially misleading with > other types of > > pools (reflecting pool, swimming pool, salt pool, ...). > > > > > As far as I know, all these types of pools are man-made, not natural, so > I'm not sure how > misleading "water=pool" would be. > > > > If you don't need a new tag, I would go for natural=water water=lake > (and let the size > > and position of the feature show that it is a small body of water on a > river) After all, it > > is a kind of lake, only much smaller ;) The various definitions to > distiguish lake/pond > > are quite messy, I do not want to go there. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pond#Technical_definitions > > Please also note that in current OSM wiki: water=lake "should be > considered default > > for natural=water, when no water or other descriptive tags are > specified". > > I think it is good enough for the kind of semantics we are trying to > achieve in OSM. > > > > > > Otherwise, if I cannot convince you with that alone, at least expand to > "stream_pool", > > like: > > > > natural=water > > water=lake > > lake=stream_pool > > > > or > > > > natural=water > > water=stream_pool > > > > > > -- althio > > > I like > > natural=water > water=stream_pool > > as in your second example above. > > > Mark Bradley > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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