Tag:waterway=canal

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+/-Public-images-osm logo.svg waterway=canal

One example for waterway=canal

Description

An artificial open waterway used for transportation, waterpower, or irrigation.

Used on these elements

Can not be attached on nodes Can be attached on ways Can not be attached on areas Unknown or not included in the template

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An artificial open waterway used for transportation, waterpower, or irrigation.

Contents

How to Map

ElementWay.png

To map a canal make a simple way. Add the waterway=canal tag to it. You should also add a name with name=* if it's known.


Rendering

Waterway canal.png

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Generalised Way type tags

Extended Tags

width=* to indicate the width in meters. This is an average width of the canal along the length of that portion of canal. You can use width=5 to tag an average canal width of 5 meters.

Photos

Oderhavelkanal.jpg
Grand Union Canal.jpg
Irrigation canal.JPG

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