Key:ref:gwlnr

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ref:gwlnr
Description
A uniform reference number for a river in Switzerland. Two letters followed by 10 digits. The middle part is ref:gewiss. Edit this description in the wiki page. Edit this description in the data item.
Group: references
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesmay be used on waysshould not be used on areasmay be used on relations
Useful combination
See also
Status: in use

ref:gwlnr=* can be used to provide the rivers with the uniform numbering within Switzerland. The key is appended to waterway=* or added to the river-relation.

As described on the German Wikipedia, the reference numbers have the form "AG0034220003" with a two letter code for a Swiss canton (or "CH") followed by 10 digits. It includes the GEWISS number.

References

Possible tagging errors

Values that are only a few digits are likely ref:gewiss=*.

try it yourself in overpass-turbo
try it yourself in overpass-turbo
[out:json][timeout:100];
nwr["ref:gwlnr"~"^[1-9][0-9]*$"];
out meta geom;