[Talk-GB] Tagging canal staircase locks

[Dave F]

Caen Hill is visually appealing due to the numerous pounds, but I notice 
it doesn't appear to have a name tag

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.3520/-2.0251

Personally I think a place tag is preferable. I've never been a fan of 
using Relations just to group thinks together. It's not what they were 
conceived for. The way they've been used as 'stop areas' in the Public 
Transport v2 schema has made many railway station a confusing mess.

DaveF

On 11/08/2021 19:08, Tom Crocker wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, 16:41 Michael Collinson, <mike at ayeltd.biz 
> <mailto: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
>     <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 
> <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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