Apologies but I've never come across the term mole, the equivalent English article on the Wikipedia for the German article Mole and the French article Brise-lames is the article Breakwater which has a tag page on the openstreetmap wiki[1] is a approved proposal and seems to have almost 14000 ways, there appears to be only one way tagged as mole in the UK[2].
Is there a specific difference between mole and breakwater? In my experience in Scotland a breakwater is often referred to and acts as a pier. 1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dbreakwater 2. http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/erX Cheers On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Malcolm Herring <malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On 16/02/2016 16:48, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: >> >> So is a mole a special sort of pier ? Then definition of "pier" in >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpier is wrong, as it >> is not always "a raised walkway over water supported by pillars". > > > That definition of a pier is correct. Water flows under a pier but not a > mole. So the outline of the projecting area of a mole is part of the > coastline (or riverbank) whereas a pier is not. I use the tag > "man_made=mole". Tags with "pier" in either key or value are inappropriate > for a mole. > > Also, to complicate the issue, there is also an "open-faced wharf" as > opposed to a "solid-faced wharf" (the usual case). An open faced wharf is a > pier-like structure (i.e. a deck on piles over the water) but alongside the > shore rather projecting from it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging