[Talk-GB] Tagging canal staircase locks

[Philip Barnes]

I would have thought the obvious staircase locks to look at is Foxton.

I remember going there with the school. From memory the gates are shared between locks with a wide passing place in the middle of the flight.

Phil (trigpoint)

On Wednesday, 11 August 2021, Tom Crocker wrote:
> 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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