I like waterway=floating_barrier - avoids collision with gates, more clear for
foreigner speakers.
Hopefully it is not a horrific mutilation of English language.
Oct 8, 2020, 20:03 by joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com:
> A boom is a floating visual or physical barrier used across canals, rivers
> and around harbours to delineate places where boats, canoes or swimmers
> should not cross.
>
> The wikipedia page isn't very good (it mostly focuses on historic chain
> barriers rather than current floating booms), but has some description.: ">
> > boom> ...> is an obstacle strung across a navigable stretch of water to
> control or block navigation. >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_(navigational_barrier)
> Also see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_boom> and >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_(containment)> - two specialized type of
> booms which stop floating logs, trash or oil.
>
> Here are a few examples:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydro_Tasmania_floating_safety_barrier.jpg
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floating_boom_at_the_beach_in_Pattaya.jpg
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floating_barrier_on_Ballona_Creek.jpg
>
> Recently a user suggested mapping these as barrier=boom, and this has been
> used about 30 times, however that tag has also been used a dozen times for
> lift gates (also called a "boom" in some languages, eg: >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bourke-Docker_Street_level_crossing_boom_gate.jpg>
> )
>
> The tag man_made=boom is equally (un)common: >
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=boom
>
> A somewhat more common option is waterway=floating_barrier which has been
> used 104 times, mostly in England: >
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/waterway=floating_barrier> - and
> there are some uses of similar tags like waterway=barrier and
> waterway=surface_barrier.
>
> The most common current tag is the complicated
> seamark:obstruction:category=boom
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/seamark%3Aobstruction%3Acategory=boom>
> - there are 265 ways with it, mostly in the the Netherlands. I wouldn't
> really recommend this tag since it is excessively complicated.
>
> So, what's the best option? man_made=boom, barrier=boom,
> waterway=floating_barrier?
>
> - Joseph Eisenberg
>
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