Tag:man_made=pier
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A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars.
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The man_made=pier tag is used for a raised walkway over water supported by pillars made of metal/wood or steel, or floating and secured using chains (see wikipedia:Pier). Also referred to in some places as a 'jetty', 'raft' or 'dock'. Definition ('Pier, Jetty'). "A long, narrow structure extending into the water to afford a berthing place for vessels, to serve as a promenade, etc." (International Hydrographic Organization, IHO Dictionary, S-32, 5th Edition)
Piers can range is scale from light structures no more that 1 to 2 meters wide under which tides and currents can flow almost unhindered to large solid structures with closely-spaced piles extended over a mile out to sea.
Use man_made=breakwater for a solid structure designed to protect a harbour from waves and man_made=groyne for one designed to protect the shore from long-shore drift.
How to map
Most piers can be mapped as a open way for the length of the pier tagged with man_made=pier, wider piers should be tagged as an area. The shore end of the pier should be terminated on a node shared with the coastline or the riverbank and should not extend onto shore. Use shared nodes where piers connect to other piers over the water.
For piers with name used name=*. If the pier is used for mooring boat then add mooring=yes and optionally private=*. For floating rafts tag with man_made=pier and floating=yes.
To create a route-able network the create a highway=footway or similar on land to the water's edge using the same node.
Examples
simple landing stage
Promenade pier Usedom
"Eastbourne Pier"
floating pier
See also
Related terms: slip. wharf. dock. pier. buttress. promenade.
