<div dir="ltr">Weir does not seem appropriate for this type of thing. There is a tag, waterway=spillway, that seems like a good fit - 81 uses so far.<div><br></div><div>You could also add emergency=yes to the above or create a new tag, emergency=spillway</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Mark Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark+osm@carnildo.com" target="_blank">mark+osm@carnildo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:44:17 +0900<br>
John Willis <<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com">johnw@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> How do you tag an emergency spillway?<br>
><br>
> I am tagging a giant flood control reservoir in my region. The “lake”<br>
> is surrounded by giant man-made embankments on all sides, surrounded<br>
> by an additional set of embankments, with gates to let the water<br>
> out. There is no dam per se, because there is ~200 km of this<br>
> man-made 10-20m tall earthen embankment (levee) around the entire<br>
> river system - it is part of that.<br>
><br>
> When this levee system fails uncontrollably (like it did downstream<br>
> from me in 2015), it is really bad.<br>
> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfs3OeqiqRk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=Hfs3OeqiqRk</a><br>
> <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfs3OeqiqRk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr>watch?v=Hfs3OeqiqRk</a>><br>
><br>
> This reservoir system catches water during a typhoon from a smaller<br>
> river, then releases it slowly after the peak flooding into the<br>
> larger river. this reduces the chance of flooding further<br>
> downstream.<br>
><br>
> However, it has 2 sets of emergency spillways (each about 1Km long)<br>
> to let water out of both sets of embankments, so where it “fails" can<br>
> be controlled. it is 5 m lower than rest of the embankments<br>
> surrounding the reservoirs. These were recently added.<br>
><br>
> I made a polygon on one such spillway.<br>
> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/481898093#map=14/36.2115/139.6880" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/481898093#map=14/36.2115/<wbr>139.6880</a><br>
> <<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/481898093#map=14/36.2115/139.6880" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/way/481898093#map=14/36.<wbr>2115/139.6880</a>> .<br>
> the heart-shaped lake is the reservoir, and most of the surrounding<br>
> green areas are part of the flood control basin made by the second<br>
> set of levees.<br>
><br>
> These *emergency* spillways are considered safety features of most<br>
> large water control projects - if the human-controlled gates o the<br>
> normal spillway jam shut, the emergency spillways will keep the<br>
> dam/embankments from being over-topped in unexpected places. I know<br>
> these are a major mappable feature of large dams, but they are not<br>
> mentioned on the Dam wiki page. Maybe I am looking at it wrong.<br>
><br>
> As these are not a weir, nor a normal path for water to go, I<br>
> wouldn’t tag them as a weir nor as a object normally associated with<br>
> a waterway line running through it.<br>
><br>
> is there an existing tag or another name for these features that I<br>
> don’t know of? How do I tag these emergency spillways (and heck -<br>
> these huge levee embankments!) correctly?<br>
<br>
</div></div>For what it's worth, Oroville Dam<br>
(<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/39.54412/-121.49263" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/#map=17/39.54412/-121.<wbr>49263</a>) currently<br>
has its emergency spillway tagged as a weir.<br>
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Mark<br>
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