Changeset: 47109344
Changing spokane river riverbank to natural:riverbank
Closed by markknp
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Discussion
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Comment from Carnildo
Is there a reason why you're changing the river from the commonly-used "waterway=riverbank" to the rare "natural=riverbank"?
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Comment from Carnildo
In the continued absence of a response, I've un-done this change.
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Comment from markknp
Carnildo, it was changed during testing of a software package. Is there a published standard or best practices for tags? They seem to be fairly random...
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Comment from Carnildo
The best place for finding out about existing tags is the wiki: for example, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water or https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank (there are two competing standards for tagging riverbanks: one groups them with lakes, ponds, and other water areas, while the other groups them with rivers, canals, and other water flow paths). Another good source of information is the "taginfo" website, where you can see how a tag is used: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/water=river
If you want to propose a new tag, you can just start using it, though it's better if you go through the proposal process: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process. Changing existing tags on an object should generally be avoided unless the new tags are more accurate and reasonably widely adopted.
If you want to do test edits, it's generally better to set up an account on the development server: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sandbox_for_editing
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