Hi John, Ive been tagging a few boatramps lately, and your suggestion is basically exactly what Ive been doing, but I have also wondered if it is the best method, and had a few questions.
Firstly, leisure=slipway works fine for most cases of boatramps, but some boatramps arent 'leisure', for example a water-police or navy boat ramp or a boat ramp setup near a dry dock. These ramps are still slipway's but dont fit the leisure category. Maybe an access= tag or something might be appropriate. Secondly, Ive wondered (like you), how exactly to map them. Should they be mapped right to the waters edge, or should they continue down past the waterline, the same way the actual ramp does? Im aware there are issues with people attaching ways to polygon/relations, so Ive been extending the way over the polygon and into the waterway. Ive been mapping a few ramps around Canberra, and have come across a few different uses. Ive also noticed some areas have rowing pontoons setup in the lake, which are the same as a boat ramp, but they run at ground level while the boatramp disappears under the water. These arent really slipways, but what else is appropriate? Some sort of sport=rowing amenity=pontoon or something, comes to mind. David On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 09:02 +1100, John Henderson wrote: > Has anyone got a better suggestion for showing a boat ramp than > extending a "highway=service" out into the water? The "leisure=slipway" > tag is meant to apply to nodes, not ways. > > Inland impoundments can have long boat ramps because the water levels > can vary so much. This link shows the length of ramp that's currently > exposed at Lake Burrinjuck: > http://www.osm.org/?lat=-34.982064&lon=148.624566&zoom=18 > > I've also tagged the node at the high water mark as "leisure=slipway". > > John H > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
