[Tagging] Docks - Change to use the natural/water schema?

[Dave F]

On 01/04/2022 21:52, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 1 Apr 2022, at 17:24, Dave F via Tagging 
>> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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>> That's really irrelevant to this proposal of moving the dock tag from 
>> waterway=  to water= which are both water features.
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> it is relevant, because water=* is about the Specification of a water 
> body
> while waterway=* is also for features related to waterways, like fuel 
> stations, barriers on waterways, features like docks and boatyards, 
> and more:

A dock is a "body of water". From the wiki: "An enclosed area of water 
for ships and other craft..."

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> the water-key is hardly used on nodes, and 80% of these few nodes are 
> temporary (representing lakes, reservoirs and ponds which will 
> probably be converted to areas sooner or later: 
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/water?filter=nodes#values
>  while waterway is more often used for classical point features 
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/waterway?filter=nodes#values

A dock is not a " classical point feature".

Twice as many docks are mapped as areas. Those mapped as nodes "will 
probably be converted to areas sooner or later:"

All the renderers I checked render docks the same as other water=* areas 
such as rivers & lakes.

DaveF

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