[Tagging] Spillways

Tobias Wrede list at tobias-wrede.de
Thu Mar 23 16:51:41 UTC 2017


Hello,

actually, I have used
    warterway=spillway
    intermittent=yes
in the past, reasoning that this particular spillway 
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/451309286) is rarely put to use, while 
others might be more permanently flooded (regularly during high tides 
for example)

Tobias

Am 23.03.2017 um 12:58 schrieb John Sturdy:
> I suppose  waterway=weir plus intermittent=yes would describe it, but 
> I don't think that's as good as a specific spillway tag.
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Andrew Harvey 
> <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com <mailto:andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 22 March 2017 at 16:56, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com
>     <mailto:daveswarthout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Weir does not seem appropriate for this type of thing. There is
>     a tag,
>     > waterway=spillway, that seems like a good fit - 81 uses so far.
>
>     I've seen these tagged as waterway=drain which is close but agree that
>     waterway=spillway is better. Would be great to have this documented on
>     the wiki.
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