[Tagging] In water farming on rafts?

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 17:55:05 UTC 2022


It is not a landuse=plant_nursery, a plant nursery is used to "grow live
plants for sale" as stated on the wiki page. These floating structures are
growing plants which function as an artificial reedbed or wetland, the
plants are not going to be removed and sold elsewhere.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 6:15 AM Alan Mackie <aamackie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with man_made=pier for the structure, with the appropriate
floating=yes.
>
> For the usage: landuse=plant_nursery
>
> At least those are the closest I'm aware of. It doesn't really seem like
wetland to me.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dplant_nursery
>
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 08:48, Robert Skedgell <rob at hubris.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The wiki for man_made=pier includes this (rendered in OSM Carto):
>> "For floating rafts, tag with man_made=pier and floating=yes."
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man%20made=pier
>>
>> Could that work, combined with natural=wetland + wetland=* ? I'm not
>> entirely happy with that, but it's possibly better than misusing
>> natural=islet.
>>
>> On 28/01/2022 00:25, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> > 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://www.google.com.au/maps/@-28.0531823,153.4119481,49m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
>
>> >
>> > https://goo.gl/maps/FCaDX7u5oou17L5x9
>> > <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
>> > <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
>> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwetland> - marsh /
>> > reedbed / fen? & also managed=yes?
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Graeme
>> >
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