Talk:Tag:man made=pier

Can we discriminate please between a pier on piers (e.g. made from oak or concrete piers) and a quay with a closed mural/wall?

Bigger piers with walls you find rails on small ones not. Even pontons should be signed as those.

We can leave that questions up to next saison (nothern hemisphere) where I hope to drag a flock of people to their boats and canoes to mape waterways?

scoid 10:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

The Isle of Wight has a number of piers, ranging in size from short narrow ones, to one with both a road and a train line on it. This larger one I drew as an area, but still tagged it on my local OSM data as manmade=pier, whilst the smaller ones I just tagged the segment as manmade=pier. Dmgroom 13:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

lost in translation

How to tag piers that doesn't fit this description? There are languages that use the same word for pier, warf, quey, breakwater, etc. I have until now not seen a clear definition to tag the warf or the quey, and neither clear definition of these. These pages should also be inter-linked, so that people looking for the one or the other can be guided to the right tag. --Skippern 10:44, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it's a mess with different meanings, translations and synonyms. I will try to give a structure to the marine-related pages based on IHO definitions (why reeinvent the wheel), starting on Marine_Mapping with the already suggested structure. Obviously it would make sense to have also an alphabetical index which includes the synonyms. I will take this into account. --HeikoE 11:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

enable routing for pier needs highway tag

If a pier should be usable for routing its seems to be necessary to add a highway tag and not only to be connected.

tested with http://openrouteservice.org/