Handling lake data linking

[lawinslow]

Moving conversation from this issue here.

I'm generally uncomfortable with the semantics of lakes as wide rivers have many (all?) of the same characteristics from a data model point of view and need to be treated on the same spectrum of data.

I'm confused, so are you saying lakes are treated as wide rivers now? I think that would actually be a fairly reasonable way to do that. Especially if the lake catchments were calculated and up-catchment datapoints were linked to the lake itself. Doesn't really matter if the system knows it is a lake or not, or just a really wide river.

[dblodgett-usgs]

We don't have any waterbodies in the system right now. When we add them, the idea would be that we could link data to them and link them to the watersheds they relate to like you are saying.