> I would think a good start would be changing the wiki to make it historic=flood_level, leaving any reference to high (or low) water to be a waterways thing ie the high tide mark.
+1 Very sensible IMO. On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 2:59 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 6 August 2018 at 02:48, Robert Szczepanek <rob...@szczepanek.pl> wrote: > >> W dniu 05.08.2018 o 12:23, Volker Schmidt pisze: >> >>> Flood marks and high water marks are not necessarily the same thing. >>> Read >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_water_mark >>> to get the gist. >>> There are ordinary high water marks (and I suppose also the opposite, >>> ordinary low water marks) which are based on the regular tides in the area. >>> A flood mark would be a marker for the water level reached in certain, >>> particular events. >>> I am not sure about terminology in different jurisdictions, but the >>> concept seems to be clear to me that there are two different things we want >>> to tag. >>> >> >> I would like it to be so: >> - flood marks as flood signs, >> - highwater marks as tide signs. >> But even in recent scientific papers this division is not so clear. >> >> Another issue is that from the beginning, on OSM wiki >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic >> mark related to floods is described as >> historic=highwater_mark >> >> What would be the optimal tagging solution from OSM point of view? >> >> regards >> Robert > > > I would think a good start would be changing the wiki to make it > historic=flood_level, leaving any reference to high (or low) water to be a > waterways thing ie the high tide mark. > > Thanks > > Graeme > > _______________________________________________ > 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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