[Talk-GB] Tagging canal staircase locks

[Tom Crocker]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, 16:41 Michael Collinson, <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

> 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
>

Looks like another case where a general purpose group relation would be
useful such as
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Group_Relation
Unfortunately I don't think there's any support for it in renderers
currently.

Tom

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