[Tagging] In water farming on rafts?

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 00:25:08 UTC 2022


While mapping recently, I spotted a number of these spread through a nearby
complex of man-made, fresh-water lakes:

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-28.0531823,153.4119481,49m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

https://goo.gl/maps/FCaDX7u5oou17L5x9

(As always, Google images are used only to show things, not for mapping)

Asked Council what they are for & they advise that they are moored,
floating rafts, used to grow reeds & other aquatic plants, which are
anchored in front of storm-water drains so as to improve water quality.

So what would we call them?

TI says that leisure=raft is used twice (once as "yes" & the other as
"designated"), but these aren't for leisure purposes.

There's a seamark type " Marine farm/culture":  *An assemblage of cages,
nets, rafts and floats or posts where fish, including shellfish, are
artificially cultivated.* Not really?

landuse=aquaculture
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Daquaculture is again
really about farming, rather than just growing?

natural=islet + natural=wetland (even though they're man-made), together
with one of the wetland=
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwetland - marsh / reedbed
/ fen? & also managed=yes?

Thoughts?

Thanks

Graeme
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20220128/4310479b/attachment.htm>


More information about the Tagging mailing list