[talk-au] How to tag swimming pontoons

[Andrew Davidson]

On 25/01/17 22:05, Andrew Harvey wrote:

>
> As for the pontoon, per
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpier "The
> man_made=pier tag is used for a raised walkway over water supported by
> pillars made of metal/wood, or floating and secured using chains",
> plus floating=yes
>

It would depend on whether we are talking about a floating jetty:

http://www.letsonslanding.com/images/IMG_4212dock_wide.jpg

or what our American friends would call a swimming raft:

http://manitoulincedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/swim-raft-2013.jpg

The first one is a pier but the second one isn't.

It seems that there are two ways to tag a swimming raft. The first is 
from OpenSeaMap seamark:type=pontoon

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:seamark:type%3Dpontoon

There's 36 of these. The other is man_made=pontoon (There's 87 of these).

On 26/01/17 10:25, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
 > Would you then mark the inside of the pontoon as a swimming pool?
 >
 > Could you mark a swimming pool in the middle of a lake?
 >

Maybe swimming_area

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dswimming_area ?