<div dir="auto">Sluice gate is correct for open waterways. Valve is the equivalent if the water flows in pipeline.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Apr 2017 14:43, "François Lacombe" <<a href="mailto:fl.infosreseaux@gmail.com">fl.infosreseaux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I wasn't aware of this word too and it's a nice find :)<br><br></div>Sluice gates won't be used elsewhere than on waterways (even underground pipelines or penstocks) but discharge points can be found on a any pressurized pipeline system (hydraulic, pneumatic and so on)<br></div>flow_control should be freely used on waterway=*, pipeline=* or even man_made structures (dam)<br><br></div>Furthermore, you can find sluice valves also, and flow_control may be used on pipeline=valve nodes.<br><br></div>All the best<br><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_6049976176841233147gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>François Lacombe</b><br><br>fl dot infosreseaux At gmail dot com<br><a href="http://www.infos-reseaux.com" target="_blank">www.infos-reseaux.com</a><br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/InfosReseaux" target="_blank">@InfosReseaux</a></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-21 13:56 GMT+02:00 John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Thanks Marc and John - that is exactly what I was looking for. I didn't know that word, so searching the wiki didn't help.<br>
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I will follow the wiki on that.<br>
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Any suggestions for the landuse for water control facilities?<br>
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<span class="m_6049976176841233147im m_6049976176841233147HOEnZb">> On Apr 21, 2017, at 7:57 PM, Marc Gemis <<a href="mailto:marc.gemis@gmail.com" target="_blank">marc.gemis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> that's what I use (I seem to be one of the more heavy users of this tag).<br>
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