On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Malcolm Herring < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 29/05/2015 08:41, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > >> Why is this a property of the dock, >> rather than a property of the water body. >> > > A dock is a body of water. It may or may not be separated from a > connecting river or sea by a lock or single gate. Ah, that sense of the word. Among USA English laypeople, dock is going to be almost universally interpreted as a synonym for pier: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dock To avoid confusion with pier, is there an alternative term that OSM can use for receiving waters? The miss-tagging reported on this list may be rooted in confusion over what type of dock is meant.
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