[OSM-talk] Quay

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-01-26 21:16 GMT+01:00 Malcolm Herring <malcolm.herring at btinternet.com>:

> On 26/01/2015 19:23, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>
>> man_made=quay anyone ?
>>
>
> To quote the IHO dictionary:
>
> "quay. A WHARF approximately parallel to the SHORELINE and accommodating
> ships on one side only, the other side
> being attached to the SHORE. It is usually of solid construction, as
> contrasted with the open pile construction usually
> used for PIERS."
>
> So yes, your reasoning is correct & that section of the coastline that
> forms the quay could indeed be tagged "man_made=quay".
>
>

-1, the text you're quoting says something quite different, my
interpretation how to map it in OSM:
either draw it as an area (with indeed the shoreline overlapping at one
side),
or draw it as a linear feature on its center (like we do for highways). In
this case the way would be parallel to the coastline.


In both variants you won't have the quay and coastline tags on the same
object in OSM.

cheers,
Martin
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