How to map gully covers for storm water draining?

[Batistacavera]

We currently have a tagging scheme for manhole covers for storm water drainage. According to the wiki this should only be used for covers large enough to allow a human access to the draining pipe system.

In Sweden these large covers are quite uncommon. Instead we use regular (0.6 meter in diameter) manhole covers for human access and a lot smaller rectangular ones for the storm water draining. At the moment theh are (incorrecly) mapped as manhole=drain and I would like a better sollution.

I’ve been thinking about a possible tagging system and would like some input. My suggestion is:

man_made = gully
gully = drain

Useful combination

• inlet=grate

• material=*

• shape=*

• colour=*

• width=*

• length=*

I would very much like your suggestions before I consider a formal proposal on the wiki.

[Map_HeRo (Mikke)]

I have already put the same question here:

Tagging stormwater drains which are not manholes

Just by chance I stumbled across a kerb inlet grate for stormwater drainage tagged as man_made=manhole + manhole=drain + inlet=grate which made me wonder because these kerb inlets are not manholes in reality (designed for a person to climb into) but just inspection openings giving access to a kind of sieve bucket used to prevent any waste material to enter the sewage pipe. I checked the wiki page for key:inlet and found the description When mapping inlet=grate or inlet=kerb_grate, the tags m…

I have also prepared a wikipage as an overview for road inlets and covers with tagging suggestions:

Road inlets and covers - OpenStreetMap Wiki

[Batistacavera]

Amazing work. My original post is obsolete. Do you need any help before you present your proposal?

[Map_HeRo (Mikke)]

Frankly spoken I did not intend to write a proposal for the recomended changes. Originally the wiki said that only manholes are manholes which was lateron changed to include all kinds of storm drains and inlet grates. I just wanted to adjust the descriptions in the wiki and link the overview page as reference, but did not find the time yet. There are several wiki pages both in english and german (this are the ones I care about) affected and I want to avoid to create confusion so it will take some time to get everything straight. I hope I can make it within the next 2 weeks.

Anyhow if you think writing a proposal in regard of this issue I surley have no objection.