Hello Dartmouthmapmaker,

Thank you for your many contributions to openstreetmap. I noticed some collateral changes to some rapids in this changeset I wanted to discuss.  

Taking for example Priestly Rapids:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1347779147#map=16/46.85657/-69.51465

Previously:
* the way was tagged as a waterway=river+rapids=yes
** with the name= as the name of the river
* the way was surrounded by an area natural=water+water=rapids  https://pewu.github.io/osm-history/#/way/1215586313
**with the name= of the area being the name of the rapids
*the way is in included in the river relation https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9723202 

After this changeset:
* the way is changed from waterway=river+rapids=yes to  waterway=rapids+rapids=yes
**with the name= changed to the the name of the rapids 
* the area surrounding the way tagging changed from natural=water+water=rapids to natural=water
** the way is still included in the river relation https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9723202 

Based on both the conventions I've seen in most places and the english wiki documentation https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Drapids  I think the original tagging was more correct.  

I also don't almost no use of of waterway=rapids as the way tagging for section of rivers with rapids in the current OSM dataset (at least where I checked in NE US + eastern canada).  While there is/was some small usage of waterway=rapids to tag the centerline of rapids, it every example I found was in ADDITION to the waterway=river tagging (in alignment with the old, pre-2024 english wiki guidelines https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:waterway%3Drapids&oldid=2618064 )  

cheers,
scarapella