[OSM-talk] Boats, marinas and the sea

[Erik Johansson]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Wolfgang Schreiter <blubb88 at gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>>> we are working on seamap tagging schemes this weekend and hope to bring
>>> back
>>> some more information during the next week.
>>>
>>> We have the German only page
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Hafen
>>>
>>> I hope to get it translated during the next 2 weeks.
>>>
>>
>> I'd be interested in whether marina designates just the water area or also
>> the facilities on land (restaurant, crane, slipway,...).
>
> I've always considered a marina to be everything including the land facilities.
>

Me too, I've always marked marinas with name, but I usually don't mark
land facilities that lack jetties and mooring.

About the excellently designed seamark page, I think I'm going to wait
until it's available in english, but it seems it's more about mapping
harbours than marinas (which are far greater in numbers).




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/emj