[Tagging] nautical channels

[osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au]

Maybe following the same scheme as for highways:

 

waterway=navigable_channel (for way along the middle of the channel)

area:waterway=navigable_channel (for area bound by buoys, with an intersecting node at both ends between the area and the middle line way)

 

From: osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au <osm.tagging at thorsten.engler.id.au> 
Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2018 11:25
To: 'Tag discussion, strategy and related tools' <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Tagging] nautical channels

 

I think it’s slightly different.

 

For canoe routes, there is generally no infrastructure along the route.

 

While navigable channels are marked with buoys, which makes them closer to a “highway” on land than a route. So I think it’s something that belongs in the waterway namespace.

 

If navigable channel is the correct nautical term, then the obvious would be waterway=navigable_channel

 

The real question becomes: tagging as a way in the middle of the channel? Tagging as an area (by mapping the buoys as seamarks, then connecting them to form an area)? Both? Either?

 

From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com> > 
Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2018 11:10
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging at openstreetmap.org <mailto:tagging at openstreetmap.org> >
Subject: Re: [Tagging] nautical channels

 

& as I've just mentioned on the Canoe Route thread, we're discussing two things that are pretty well the same!

 

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-June/037677.html

 

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-July/037729.html

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