[Talk-GB] Tagging canal staircase locks

[Michael Collinson]

I would hazard a guess that you are the first to think of it and the if 
anyone else has it will Richard Fairhurst and possibly Gervase Markham, 
(not sure if he is still active?).

Looking a Bingley Five Rise, in 2008 I (cyclist with very amateur 
interest in industrial heritage), mapped the the lock gates themselves. 
In 2011, dysteleologist 
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dysteleologist> with an interest in 
man-made waterways thought to think of the locks themselves, creating 
canal way segments with lock=yes. At that is as far as it has gone.

Looks like a job for a relation? [Slight shudder and exits stage left.]

Mike

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/53.85572/-1.83772  Bingley Five Rise

On 2021-08-11 16:46, Colin Spiller wrote:
> I can't find any advice on how to tag a staircase lock - a series of
> locks directly linked to each other. The individual locks themselves are
> mapped - described in the wiki at
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lock but the group together
> doesn't seem to have any standard. Or am I missing something (again!).
>
> I found a couple of examples, e.g. Tyrley Locks at
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5151165013 where the name is included
> as a place=locality
>
> Is this the accepted standard? There's a huge list for England at
> http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk/A_heritage/canals/Lists/lock_flights.htm
> but I don't think they all qualify as staircases. Anything over about 5
> locks is likely to be very spread out and not directly connected one
> lock to the next.
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin in West Yorkshire
>

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