[Tagging] levees

[John Smith]

On 29 October 2010 08:24, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a standard way to tag a levee? It seems that highway=track
> embankment=yes would work for the vast majority of cases, but there
> may be some that service vehicles can't drive on.

Most levees I've seen in Australia don't have a track running along
the top, the one at Goondiwindi has a footway...

http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-28.548824,150.304309&spn=0.003463,0.006968&t=k&z=18

Most of the levees I've seen here seem to run along rivers, to protect
towns from periodical flooding... Although this one was constructed
temporarily...

http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-28.586001,148.232418&z=19&t=k&nmd=20100310