[OSM-talk] Harbours

[Alex Mauer]

Maurice le Rutte wrote:
> For harbours at tidal seas information about the currents is important.  
> For big commercial harbours such as Rotterdam the shipping lanes are  
> important. For ferry harbours such as Dover the waiting areas, etc etc.

It seems to me that the thing to do would be to get that information
into OSM then.

> I'd say that marking the harbour as a point of interest is enough. Any  
> sailor that is going to use a landmap for navigation should refrain from  
> boarding.

But OSM isn't a landmap.  Well, it is currently, and barely even that;
but it has the potential to store any sort of map information.  The idea
should be to add sea navigation map abilities to OSM rather than
dismissing it as "not a navigation map".  So I would think it would be
better to first, determine what information is useful for sailing,
second how to describe it, and third, start gathering it.  This
sub-thread is about the first one.

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