Tag:waterway=dock

+/- waterway=dock Description a dock is an 'enclosed' area of water used for loading, unloading, building or repairing ships. Used on these elements Useful combination name=* ref=* access=* Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status Undefined

See also: Harbour
From wikipedia

A dock is an 'enclosed' area of water used for loading, unloading, building or repairing ships. Such a dock may be created by building enclosing harbour walls into an existing natural water space, or by excavation within what would otherwise be dry land.

A dock is a narrow basin that can be flooded and drained to allow a load to come to rest on a dry platform.

A dock may be also a tidal harbour with closing doors to hold out or in the water.

Dock can also refer to an enclosed area where water can be removed, in order to do inspections or maintenance on a vessels wet surface, also known as drydock.

Note that in American and Canadian (and others?) a dock is often synonymous with a pier or wharf—any human-made structure in the water intended for people to be on - if tagging features of this type one should probably use man_made=pier.

Contents 1 How to Map 2 Types of dock 3 Example 4 Related tags

How to Map

1. Draw a closed area where all ways run clockwise or counter-clockwise. Add the waterway=dock to it. or
2. Add a node at the centre of the building and add the waterway=dock tag.

You can also add the name=* tag to it, if the dock has a name.

Types of dock

Type of dock can also be identified by the use of optional tag dock=*

• dock=tidal - For a tidal dock, where the dock holds a stable waterlevel in a basin, in order to make loading and offloading of ships easier, or to have a safe harbour in areas with a large tidal difference.
• dock=drydock - Usually a maintenance dock where ships can enter to do inspections and maintenance on the wet surface of the hull.
• dock=floating - Floating docks are usually a large floating structure with the purpose to lift a vessel out of the water for maintenance or inspections of the wet surface of the hull.

Example

Barrow-in-Furness has two docks.

Related tags

• man_made=pier

v • d • e Public transport Buses Busways, routes, stops, stations, depots Trains Railways, routes, stations, and depots Trams Tramways, routes, stops, and depots Ferries Shipping lanes, routes, ports, and docks Flights Flight paths, routes, airports, and hangars

Related terms: anchor. wharf. harbor. slip. dock.