[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - (man_made=dyke)

[Adam Schreiber]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> It looks like this tag also could be set to a vote, i think there is
> agreement that it gets spelled this way, as the OSM standard is for
> british english, ... and not a "waterway" because it is man_made  and
> usually concrete.. like a 'dam' yet it's purpose is not to retain
> water from flowing into a river. ..
> For some reason in the canvec feature set it's also listed as an area,
> perhaps it could be if the dyke was wide enough to be used for other
> purposes (such as a trail, if it was covered in gravel)

It would indeed be an area here in Clemson, SC where we have two dikes that
each have a track on top of them.  They are actually quite large
because of the long slopes on the non-water side.

Cheers,

Adam

> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Dyke
>
> Anyway i think it's ready for a vote, it's been over a year.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
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