+1 IMHO these are complementary. waterway=rapids can be tagged from overhead imagery, and the additional detail of the rapids can be added later by people with subject matter expertise.
I see this as equivalent to sac_scale=* for hiking trails - it does not replace the underlying highway=path, it adds more detail as to the type of path. Since both taggings are in use (and one is approved), it is appropriate to document both. If someone thinks that waterway=rapids should be deprecated, I think the burden would be on them to propose that. On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:58 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the year 2020 waterway=rapids has been added a couple hundred times, > and the other two tags whitewater:section_grade and whitewater:rapid_grade > have been used about 100 times each: > https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/whitewater:rapid_grade/&***/whitewater:section_grade/&***/waterway/rapids > (zoom in to the most recent yet) > > I think both tagging methods have their use. The tag waterway=rapids is > great to add to a node to specify that there are rapids here, and the > others are good for expert kayakers and rafters who are able to assess the > rapid grade. > > I don't know enough about the subject to make a proposal to clear things > up, but the existing tags seem to be fine. > > -- Joseph Eisenberg > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:35 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < > tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >> >> >> >> Dec 16, 2020, 19:27 by kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com: >> >> The last time I looked, there was no non-deprecated way to map the >> information that I had. >> >> That is sign of bad tagging scheme. >> >> I now see that @jeisenbe has restored the `waterway=rapids` tag to the >> Wiki. >> >> Is it enough? >> >> I asked here on the mailing list, and the only answers that I got were >> along the lines of "then don't map it." So for several years I haven't >> attempted to map rapids. The ones I know of and want to render, I maintain >> separately from OSM, because the previous discussion had caused me to label >> this feature mentally as, "OSM doesn't want this mapped." >> >> :( Hopefully this can be fixed so this will not happen. >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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