[OSM-talk] Harbours (was: New osmarender markings...)

[Adam Schreiber]

On 9/10/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> I recently found one such feature (natural=beach) and simply added it
> to the relevant style sheets, and now it is rendered. Easy ;-)

Nice, I'll have to do some myself.

> While we're at it, I would love some advanced guidance on harbours. I
> don't know a lot about boats and stuff. A typical small harbour, to
> me, consists of a breakwater wall, and behind it a lot of water and a
> lot of concrete giving room for boats to anchor in an orderly fashion;
> there may be some special places where you can get boats in and out of
> the water (slipways?), some places where people and/or cars can get
> onto a larger vessel (piers?), and usually a lot of (often wooden)
> footbridges to reach the smaller boats.

I haven't mapped any, but it sounds like this is need of at least two
tags, harbor for the larger protected area and amenity=marina for
where boats are housed in slips.  Also, are you using pier to mean
really big things that jut out into the water similarly to
wharves(wharfs)?

Cheers,

Adam