Wharf (US English) and Quay (British English) seem to be equivalent and describe a fixed structure that has land on one side and water on the other, but the French môle or brise-lames is different: it is a structure that protrudes into the water, but is normally narrow and often there is not even a walkway on it. It's also uses in German: Mole
On 16 February 2016 at 15:26, Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> wrote: > TL;DR: man_made=quay unless objections are raised. > > > > So I have a few nice harbour wharves to map... > > I found landuse=wharf but it is only used 37 times: > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=wharf > > man_made=pier is almost certainly not the solution, as > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpier is explicit about > its use "for a raised walkway over water supported by pillars" - which a > wharf isn't: a wharf is solid masonry. > > Ooops... I just found my solution while looking up details to document my > question - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf says "the term *quay* is > common in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and many other > Commonwealth countries, and the Republic of Ireland, whereas the term > *wharf* is more common in the United States". And indeed, looking up > "Quay" on Wikipedia redirects there - and the French language synonym for > wharf is "Quai" (though strangely it doesn't mention the French term "môle" > - which is a much better translation for "wharf"... I may have to put that > on my French Wikipedia TODO). > > So, anyway, unless objections are raised, I'll be tagging wharves as > man_made=quay areas and I'll update > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dquay > which is obviously incomplete (Now who is the numbskull who wrote this > page ? Ooops - it is me). > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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