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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I would agree that it is more like a Causeway
jugding from the wikipedia article and images, but i cant find any tag for that,
and i dont think it would render on the map</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>from <A
title="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:embankment
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href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:embankment">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:embankment</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"<FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">A raised bank
to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>it is defently not low-laying but it is the
sea so ofcource it is wet</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>i would more categorise it as a broad body of
water according to </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>here is another picture of the other one
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>the text under the picture says it is a dam, but it
defently is not</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/11/30 John F. Eldredge <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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class=gmail_quote>I would class that as a causeway, rather than an embankment.
I think "wet area" in the Wikipedia definition would refer to boggy
ground, or an intermittently-flooded low-lying area, rather than to
lake-bottom or sea-bottom that is underwater all of the
time.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>by your name I guess you're an English native
speaker, so I guess you're right, still the definition in WIkipedia
states:<BR>In modern usage, a <B>causeway</B> is a road or railway elevated on a
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title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbank
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbank">sandbank</A>, usually across a
broad <A
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_water
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_water">body of water</A> or <A
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland">wetland</A>.<BR><BR>While in the
pictures given by the OP it didn't seem to be a sandbank where the road was
constructed on. <BR><BR>cheers,<BR>Martin<BR></BODY></HTML>