[OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

[Martin Fossdal Guttesen]

Ok thanks

i will use embankment

there are only 2 of them in Faroe Islands so no biggie to change

but then is the question what/how to tag 

right now i just have a way going from one island to the other
should i draw an area that is a little wider than the road and tag the area as an embankment
or should i just put an embankment on the way




From: Martin Koppenhoefer 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 2:39 PM
To: Martin Fossdal Guttesen 
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org ; Tag discussion, strategy and related tools 
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands





2009/11/30 Martin Fossdal Guttesen <mguttesen at hotmail.com>

   if you look at the description of embankment on the map features page 

  "An embankment is an artificial bank raised above the immediately-surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea"

  then i don't think it is an embankment

well, depends which part of the wiki you look at ;-)

there is 2 definitions on the main page for embankment:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:embankment

If you look at Description (main column), there's the text you cited plus: See wikipedia:Embankment (see below)

If you look at Description (same page, but in the green column on the right), there is this:

"A raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area."

please note the "low-lying", as there is no water at all required in this case.

Wikipedia knows several usages of embankment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankment

  a.. A levee or dike, an artificial bank raised above the immediately-surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea 
  b.. Embankment (transportation), in transportation, a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area 
  c.. Embankment dam, a dam made of mounded earth and rock 
  d.. Land reclamation along river banks, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in:... 
cheers,
Martin
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