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

[Joseph Eisenberg]

James Crawford,

That line in the wiki is wrong. It was added in 2012 by an editor who was
trying to be helpful, but does not match how the tag is actually used.

dry docks and floating (dry) docks are tagged with waterway=dock and
dock=drydock / floating - These are not areas of inland water

Sea harbours are often tagged with waterway=dock. They are not areas of
inland water (the seas is mapped with natural=coastline, not natural=water)

Many piers are currently mapped as waterway=dock, some are even tagged with
man_made=pier in addition. They are not water areas.

I will update the wiki to have a correct description of the use of this tag
once this discussion is over

- Joseph Eisenberg

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 9:41 AM James Crawford via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Dear Mateusz,
>
>
> >That using it for objects which are not natural=water is a bad idea.
>
> The tag wateray=dock refers to things that are exclusively in the form of
> a water area. Nothing that cannot be represented as a water area should be
> tagged as waterway=dock!
>
> Don't get swept away with the idea that water=dock would not be
> appropriate in all cases. From the wiki for Tag:waterway=dock:
>
> > the waterway=dock tag is used to identify an enclosed area of water for
> ships and other craft
>
> To me, this is pretty clear.
>
> Regards,
> -James Crawford (SherbetS
> --
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