Proposed features/Harbour

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Harbour
Status:	Draft (under way)
Proposed by:	*
Tagging:	man_made=harbour_wall
Applies to:	linear
Definition:	<definition>
Rendered as:	black line
Draft start:
RFC start:	*
Vote start:
Vote end:

Details see Hafen and harbour

harbour=yes
+ harbour:name=

+ harbour:LOCODE=AAAAA

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provide a MS Access databse with information to approximately 64.000 harbours worldwide under the following link: NGA World Port Index.

Some of the information that might be useful to the project includes:

World Port Index Number
Region Index
Main Port Name
Country Code
Latitude Degrees
Latitude Minutes
Latitude Hemisphere
Longitude Degrees
Longitude Minutes
Longitude Hemisphere
Harbour size code
Harbour type code
Shelter afforded code
Entrance restriction tide
Entrance restriction swell
Entrance restriction ice
Channel depth
Anchorage depth
Cargo pier depth
Oil terminal depth
Tide
Maximum size vessel code
Good holding ground
Turning area
First port of entry
US representative
ETA message
Pilotage available
Drydock

--Neutronstar2 14:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

A harbour (also port, North American English Harbor) is a place where ships, boats, and barges can seek shelter from stormy weather. This article describes some of the many features associated with a harbour and the approach from the sea.

Sample harbour

Rock coast
Natural jetty
Stone coast
Footbridge or raft
Slipway
Quay
Bollard
Gate
Dry dock, tidal harbour
Pier
Anchorage
Sandy beach
Beach
Stone jetty
Harbour jetty with pier inside
Harbour jetty with rock fill outside
Coastline
Harbour as a node

Mapping a harbour

The harbour node

de	Hafen
en	harbour, port
fr	port
it	porto
en_us	harbor
nl	haven

Every harbour should be marked with a harbour=yes node to which all related properties are assigned as detailed below.

A large harbour will also have a area using landuse=harbour and this may also be divided into several harbour basins which many have their own names. If, in a large harbour, there are several harbour basins designated for a specified uses, then each harbour basin can be tagged with its own icon. Please only tag harbours with international or nationwide importance as main-harbours. Main-harbours are also shown in lower zoom levels.

The harbour basin is surrounded by jetties or piers but should not be tagged as a separate area of water. To contain that many properties a new namespace harbour: is used.

Name

The name=* should be the set to the official name for the harbour in the local language. An alternative name can be put in alt_name=*. Names in other languages can be put in name:de, name"en, name:fr etc.

name	International spelling as shown in World Port Source. Examples: "Lubeck", "Hongkong", "Copenhagen"
namenational	National spelling in national lettering. Examples: "Lübeck", "香港", "København"

Type

The type of the harour should be in the category field.

category	usage	symbol
`category=yes`	Unspecified
`category=anchorage`	A place for ships to anchor safely
`category=bulk`	Bulk materials harbour (cereals, coal, sand, ores)
`category=container`	Container harbour
`category=ferry`	Ferry harbour
`category=fishing`	Fishing harbour
`category=marina`	Marina
`category=naval_base`	Naval base
`category=passenger`	For passenger vessels (other than ferry)
`category=RoRo`	Harbour for Roll-on/roll-off ships (heavy goods vehicles, containers, trains)
`category=straddler_carrier`	Transporter that carry the containers between the gantry an the stacking area
`category=syncrolift`	Device at a gantry crane to lift and load two 20 ft-container simultaneously
`category=tanker`	Harbour for oil tanker

Also:

Harbour area	`landuse=harbour` + `harbour:type=*`
Marina area	`leisure=marina`
Marine base	`military=naval_base`
Boatyard	`waterway=boatyard`
Construction dock	`waterway=dock`

Container harbour
Fishing harbour
Oil terminal
Passenger terminal
Marina
Naval base
Anchorage

The harbour area

The harbour site (land area, not area of water ), mostly fenced or outlined by hedge, barrier or access restriction is tagged on land using landuse=harbour. It should include: dry anchorage, car parks, service buildings, dockyard, storages, container handling area, garages, sanitation, etc and also various associated facilities including: restaurant, clubhouse, supermarket, ship chandler, etc., as long it is inside of premises.

All fixed walls associated with a harbour should be mapped as being part of the natural=coastline or waterway=riverbank. These include external and internal harbour wall, wharfs, for every masonry pier and unfortified shores. Lighter elements, such as footbridges, rafts, landing-stages are deemed to be part of the sea rather than defining te edge of the sea.

The coastline can be divided into separate segments with appropriate tagging, a pier may, for example, have two different tags on either side.

natural=coastline 
+ material=*     ( concrete | masonry | boulder | tripode | steel | wood )
+ mooring=*      (Landing for …)

Harbour wall as coastline

Concrete	`material=concrete`
Brickwork	`material=masonry`
Boulders	`material=boulder`
Tripode	`material=tripode`
Steel wall	`material=steel`
Wooden planks	`material=wood`

Further tags

Size

The size respectively importance of a harbour is sorted into 4 classes in the world port index:

Size	Criterion	Example
big		Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Bremen
medium		Kiel, Lübeck, Cuxhaven, Emden
small		Flensburg, Eckernförde, Rostock, Wismar, Travemünde
very small		Wolgast, Sassnitz, Stralsund, Neustadt, Burg, Heiligenhafen, Kappeln

Restrictions

maxlength	Maximum possible length of vessel
maxdraft	Maximum possible draught (fairway and anchorage at quay)
maxspeed	Maximum allowed speed in knots
tide	Average tidal range in metres
acess:tide	Limited access when the tide is out
access:swell	Limited access during swell
access:ice	Limited access when icy

Communication data

VHF-Channel	VHF-Channel of the harbour Example: 73, 14, 10
MMSI-Number	Call sign for the DSC-Radio traffic. It consists of 9 digits and starts always with "00" Example: 00211####
phone	Telephone number in international format, starting with country code. Example "+49-381-…"
web	Link to official homepage of the harbour Example: http://www.rostock-port.de

Schema

`harbour=yes` `harbour:name=*`	International name, without national lettering)
`harbour:namenational=*`	Name in national spelling in national lettering
`harbour:portindex=*`	International number of World Port Index, 5-digits
`harbour:LOCODE=AAAAA`	US/LOCODE, 5 characters
`harbour:size=*`	Harbour size
`harbour:category=*`	ferry \| fishing \| marina \| naval base \| tanker \| passenger \| shipyard \| container \| bulk \| syncrolift \| straddler carrier
`harbour:operator=*`	Operator
`harbour:entrance:LAT=##.####`	Harbour entrance, point between the jetties
`harbour:entrance:LON=###.####`	Harbour entrance, point between the jetties
`harbour:port_of_entry=yes/no`	Clearance harbour
`harbour:main=yes/no`	Main harbour
`harbour:part=yes/no`	Sub harbour
`harbour:tide=*`	Tidal range
`harbour:access:tide=yes/no`	Access restriction due to low tide
`harbour:access:swell=yes/no`	Access restriction due to swell
`harbour:access:ice=yes/no`	Access restriction due to ice
`harbour:ship:maxspeed=#`	Maximum allowed speed in knots
`harbour:ship:maxlength=###`	Maximum possible length of vessel
`harbour:ship:maxdraft=##.#`	Maximum possible draught
`harbour:VHF_channel=*`	VHF channel
`harbour:MMSI=*`	MMSI number
`harbour:phone=*`	international telephone number
`harbour:web=*`	Web page
`harbour:note=*`	Notes

Associated features

A harbour contains and has many associated features. Here are details of some of them:

Amenities

Harbour relevant facilities e.g.:

harbour master (amenity=harbourmaster)
customs
ship fuel station (amenity=fuel)
drinking water (amenity=drinking_water)
trash disposal (amenity=waste_disposal)
oil recycling
toilets (amenity=toilets)
boat storage (amenity=boat_storage)

Breakwater

de	Wellenbrecher
en	groyne, breakwater
us
fr	brise-lames

A breakwater is a solid or nearly solid structure used to reduce the power of the waves within a harbour or to reduce coastal erosion. A breakwater in OSM is defined as "stand alone" (no connection to the shore - if a wave protection building is connected to shore, see Groyne). It is not normally possible to to walk on a breakwater and that are not used to access moored boats. Use man_made=breakwater.

Gibraltar
With beacon
Almost submerged

Dolphin

Dolphins marking out a mooring

A dolphin is structure made of wood, metal (sometimes with hard rubber covering) or concrete sticking out of shallow water which can either serve as markings of navigational channels to mark shoals or as an extended mooring for vessels to extend a pier. Proposed tagging for a mooring 'dolphin' is as a node with seamark:type=mooring ; seamark:mooring:category=dolphin

Entrance

The harbour entrance is how boats and ships enter the harbour. This is not explicitly tagged but is likely to have navigation bouy=*s nearby and may be formed from a combination of the natural=coastline and man_made=breakwaters.

Groyne

de	Buhne
en	groyne
us	groin
fr	épi

A groyne is a timber structure or a linear pile of rocks stretching across a beach a short distance into the sea to reduce erosion. These should be tagged with man_made=groyne.

Groyne at the beach
Stone groyne
Groyne in the tidelands

Mooring

A mooring is a place where boats can be fastened to a fixed object such as a bollard, pier, quay or the seabed and should use mooring=*. Moorings may be alongside a man_made=pier, on a sea wall or as a floating mooring buoy=* attached to the seabed. The mooring tag should be added to the relevant feature. In the case of a sea wall then the natual=coastline itself can be used. Do however be very careful when doing anything to the coastline as it can cause difficulties if the coastline gets broken.

Mooring allowed	`mooring=yes`
Ferry/regular service	`mooring=ferry`
Round trip/cruise	`mooring=cruise`
Mooring for guests	`mooring=guest`
Declaration	`mooring=declaration`
Mooring with sign occupied/vacant	`mooring=redgreen`

If it is a permanent anchorage it can be complemented with the name of the vessel mooring:name=* respectively mooring:operator=* for the operator.

Pier

de	Pier
en	jetty
us
fr	môle

A pier (also jetty, landing stage, footbridge) is a wooden or other solid structure on metal,wooden or concrete legs or floating which is used for the mooring, loading and unloading of vessels. Larger pier can include buildings and possibly amusement arcades all build on columns out over the sea. Piers should be tagged using man_made=pier. Use a linear way for narrower ones used to access boats and areas for larger piers with buildings. A floating=yes if the structure floats on the water

A floating raft
Footbridge with Pontoon
A large structure with amusement arcades
A landing stage on a lake

Platform

de	Plattform
en	platform
us
fr	plate-forme

A Platform is a oil platform, offshore platform such as: Deepwater Horizon. Tag with harbour=yes and harbour:category=oil_platform

-- Question. Is this relevant to the harbour article? PeterIto 08:28, 9 June 2011 (BST)

Oil platform

Pontoon

de	Ponton
en	pontoon
us
fr	ponton ; barge

A pontoon is a huge anchored harbour facility or a moving swimming, sometimes self driving working platform.

-- Question: should we map moving things? I suggest we only do if in practice it does not move. What tagging should be used for this feature? PeterIto 00:12, 8 June 2011 (BST)

Pontoon with crane

Quay

de	Kai
en	quay
us	quay
fr	quai
nl	kade

A quay is a length of coast designed to allow vessels of some size to moor alongside the shore. In an industrial harbour a quay may have cranes and facilites to unload cargo. For passenger vessels it may have facilities for passengers to embark. A quay will normally be tagged as part of the coastline natural=coastline.

-- Question: how should this be tagged? PeterIto 00:17, 8 June 2011 (BST)

Industrial quay
Wall of the quay
Quay
Promenade

Slipway

de	Rampe, Slipanlage
en	ramp, slipway, slope, ascent
us
fr	rampe

A slipway is used to launch a vessel and consists of a ramp or a carriage on rails. It continues under water until the water depth is reasonable. Tag with leisure=slipway and optionally also operator=* and operating=* ( hand | car | cable_winch | travellift ). Further information:o Ship launching, boat lift, Travellift

Hand drive, carriage	`operating=hand`
By car, boat trailer	`operating=car`
Cable winch	`operating=cable_winch`
Travellift	`operating=travellift`

Ramp
Slipway

Routes

Ferry route

Only permanent routes are mapped. They begin at the start harbour via stopover harbours to the harbour of destination. More than one route on a passage is connected between the junctions to one node.

Ferry route	`route=ferry` + `name=*`

Preferences "Harbour" for JOSM

For Editor JOSM we have comfortable preferences for editing all relevant objects in harbours. The preferences are very detailed; the user can edit the most important data like a checklist.

To use the "Harbour" preferences:

start JOSM and press key <F-12>
click on the left side the "coordinate grid" icon (3rd icon from top: "Settings for the map projection and data interpretation.")
click on the top on "Tagging Presets" tab
highlight in the lower window "Harbour", click "Activate and "OK"
By doing this, the preferences "Harbour" will be copied in the upper window.
start JOSM again. The preference "Harbour" you will now find in JOSM-menu under "Preferences".

Other resources

LOCODE

LOCODE covers 60,000 locations in 242 countries and 1000 regions. Among other things it is used to identify international seaports. The local-code consists of 5 characters. The first 2 descibe the country (ISO-3166-1) the last 3 following the location of the harbour.

World Port Index

The World Port Index contains 4300 harbours in 400 regions. Every harbour has a 5-digit number as index.