<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/30 Martin Fossdal Guttesen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mguttesen@hotmail.com">mguttesen@hotmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> if you look at the description of embankment
on the map features page </font></div>
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<div>"An embankment is an artificial bank raised above the
immediately-surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or
sea"</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">then i don't think it is an embankment</font></div></div></blockquote></div><br>well, depends which part of the wiki you look at ;-)<br><br>there is 2 definitions on the main page for embankment:<br>
<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:embankment">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:embankment</a><br><br>If you look at Description (main column), there's the text you cited plus: See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Embankment">wikipedia:Embankment</a> (see below)<br>
<br>If you look at Description (same page, but in the green column on the right), there is this:<br><p>"A raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area."</p>please note the "low-lying", as there is no water at all required in this case.<br>
<br>Wikipedia knows several usages of embankment:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment</a><br><ul><li>A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levee" title="Levee">levee</a>
or dike, an artificial bank raised above the immediately-surrounding
land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment_%28transportation%29" title="Embankment (transportation)">Embankment (transportation)</a>, in transportation, a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment_dam" title="Embankment dam">Embankment dam</a>, a dam made of mounded earth and rock</li><li>Land reclamation along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_%28geography%29" title="Bank (geography)">river banks</a>, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in:...</li>
</ul>cheers,<br>Martin<br>