<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>James Crawford, <br></div><div><br></div><div>That line in the wiki is wrong. It was added in 2012 by an editor who was trying to be helpful, but does not match how the tag is actually used.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif">dry docks and floating (dry) docks are tagged with waterway=dock and dock=drydock / floating</span> - <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif">These are not areas of inland water</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif">Sea harbours are often tagged with waterway=dock. They are not areas of inland water (the seas is mapped with natural=coastline, not natural=water)</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Many piers are currently mapped as waterway=dock, some are even tagged with man_made=pier in addition. They are not water areas. </span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">I will update the wiki to have a correct description of the use of this tag once this discussion is over</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">- Joseph Eisenberg</span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:41 AM James Crawford via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div>Dear Mateusz,<br><br><br>>That using it for objects which are not natural=water is a bad idea.<br><br>The tag wateray=dock refers to things that are exclusively in the form of a water area. Nothing that cannot be represented as a water area should be tagged as waterway=dock!<br><br>Don't get swept away with the idea that water=dock would not be appropriate in all cases. From the wiki for Tag:waterway=dock:<br><br>> the waterway=dock tag is used to identify an enclosed area of water for ships and other craft<br><br>To me, this is pretty clear.<br><br>Regards,<br>-James Crawford (SherbetS<div style="white-space:pre-wrap"><div>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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