[Tagging] Is a ship-lift a crane?

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Thanks everyone for confirming that what I thought is right - it's not a
crane because it lifts from underneath!

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 17:59, Peter Neale via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> When I saw this topic, my initial thought was of a "boat lift" used to
> transfer boats between canals at different levels.


Thanks, Peter.

As Martin mentioned, we have
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 19:13, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> the wiki has documentation
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dboat_lift
>

but I don't think this is the same thing as it specifies " transporting
boats between water at different elevation"

One of the example photos on that page is close
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Oberl%C3%A4ndischer_Kanal3.jpg but
that even says  "inclined plane (not a boat lift)"

So what do we call it?

I don't think either
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=elevator?uselang=en or
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dfunicular are right?

A new tag, either waterway= or man_made=ship_lift?

Thanks

Graeme
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