> a stream is small enough to be stepped over I believe the wiki says a stream is narrow enough that a health adult can JUMP over it, so about 2 meters wide or less.
There was a proposal to call smaller natural waterways “brooks” if they were small enough to step over, but this was rejected. > I have been tagging them as drains, because they are too small to be called a stream I believe this is incorrect, if these are natural waterways rather than man-made drainage features. Drains and ditches are always man-made. On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:38 AM EthnicFood IsGreat < ethnicfoodisgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:32:04 -0500 > > From: Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> > > To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" > > <tagging@openstreetmap.org> > > Subject: Re: [Tagging] Drain vs. ditch > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 1:05 PM EthnicFood IsGreat > > <ethnicfoodisgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Then what would you call a natural waterway that is too small to be a > >> stream? > > The Wiki says that a stream is small enough to be stepped over, but > > gives no lower bound. > > > > I can't think of many permanent watercourses around here that are > > small enough to step over. Rock-hop, usually. Sometimes wade. I > > personally don't switch from 'waterway=stream' to 'waterway=river' > > until I'm telling myself that I might someday want to map the banks. > > > > You can rock-hop https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/21811867291 in a > > dry season if you're more coordinated than I am (I wound up with boots > > full of water), but at 30 m across it's still a river. In springtime > > that crossing is completely impassable. > > > The wiki description of a stream surprises me. I always thought of a > stream as something too big to step over. In the area where I live, > smaller waterways are sometimes called "ditches" (even if they're > natural), and sometimes they're called "drains." There is even such a > thing as a "legal drain," which carries certain restrictions and > requirements. > > Mark > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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