[Tagging] Canal not showing through park?

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 04:14:02 UTC 2021


The tag waterway=canal is for linear features, not areas. You want
natural=water + water=canal to map an area like then, then you can add a
waterway=canal linear way down the center of the watercourse.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 8:39 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Recently added an intermittent drain, which feeds into what has previously
> been tagged as a canal, which runs through a park to an existing waterway.
>
> The drain is now showing, but the canal isn't :
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-27.92813/153.37953,
> although it's there in edit mode:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/-27.92809/153.37956.
>
> I've seen lots of other waterways showing up while running through parks,
> so why isn't this one?
>
> I notice it's tagged as area=yes - would that have any effect?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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