[OSM-talk] waterway=lock

[Mike Harris]

... Because in England locks almost always have unique (and often
fascinating and historic) names that are nothing to do with the canal name.

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wynndale at lavabit.com [mailto:wynndale at lavabit.com] 
> Sent: 28 August 2009 13:07
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] waterway=lock
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> > On 27/08/09 12:13, Jack Stringer wrote:
> >
> >> lock=yes
> >> lock_name=Withrington Bottom Lock
> >
> > When you are tagging a way, you can't use name= because that will 
> > already contain the name of the canal. Hence lock_name=.
> >
> Why would you want to repeat the name of a canal on its 
> individual nodes?
> Isn’t that repeating the mistake of the TIGER node tags?
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