Martin, are you saying we need a new top level waterway=* tag? What would you use? Perhaps waterway=yes? That would be the most generic option, perhaps too broad? Or waterway=marine ? Waterway=tidal?
The correct English term for these features is variable. In southwest England, they are called creeks (or tidal creeks), or pills. Creek is also used for water channels between mangroves in India and Pakistan. But in other areas they are called tidal channels or tidal inlets. See this Wikipedia article for all the examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creek_(tidal) This makes it hard to decide on a specific tag. "Creek" would be a poor choice, because some dialects use this word to refer to small freshwater rivers (or large streams), including most of North America. That's why I was inclinded to use a more general tagging scheme. On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 7:08 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 9. Sep 2018, at 07:00, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > What do you all think about using waterway=river & river=tidalchannel > for water channels in mangroves? > > > IMHO we could have a tag for channels which could be applied also > elsewhere and which is not river (rivers are usually freshwater, tagging > tidal channels as rivers seems strange) > > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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