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+/- waterway=canal Description An artificial open waterway used for transportation, waterpower, or irrigation. Used on these elements Useful combination name= Status Undefined Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

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

How to Map

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.

Note: A canal way is direction dependant. Draw the way segment into flow direction.

Additional Tags

Use 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.

Generalised Way type tags

• bridge=*
• tunnel=*
• cutting=*
• viaduct=* DEPRECATED - use bridge=aqueduct

Related Tags

• lock=*
• waterway=lock_gate
• boat=* (yes/no)

Outlines

Wide canals can have drawn outlines. To draw the outline create an Area with the tags:

• natural=water
• water=canal

The Area can be created as closed way or with a Multipolygon with the tag:

• type=multipolygon

Note: older canal areas might still use the tag waterway=riverbank.

A central way tagged with waterway=canal is still needed.

Rendering

Photos

See Also

• waterways: generic information about waterways
• waterway=*
• waterway=riverbank
• Relation:waterway