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 [email protected]: > 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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