WikiProject Canoe Maps
This wikisite describes the boating on waters with muscle powered boats. Windsurfing, whitewater sports, canoe polo or boatracing are no part of this description. Suggestions for whitewater can be found under WikiProject_Whitewater_Maps.
Note: This is a 1:1 translation from the origin page DE:WikiProject_Canoe_Maps. Discussions or comments should be made on the origin page.
Definition "canoe"
canoe=* is for all muscle powered boats, like kajaks, canoes, rowboats, drakeboats, etc. This based on the definition for access.
If needed, different boat classes can be distinguished:
- canoe:K1=* One man kayak
- canoe:K2=* tandem kayak, canoes
- canoe:rowboat=* Rowboats, big canoes, drakeboats, boats with outriggers
- canoe:all=* all muscle powered boats
The short name "K1"/"K I" for a one man kayak and "K2"/"K II" for a tandem kayak are used internationally.
Legal permissions and prohibitions
Applicable to lakes, restricted areas 
, rivers, stream, piers 
, weirs and danger spots 
.
On the sea (right from natural=coastline) canoe=yes is implicited.
- canoe=yes
- canoe=permissive
- canoe=restricted (requires canoe:restriction=TEXT)
- canoe=private
- canoe=no
All tags with exception of "canoe=no" implies that boating is possible.
Legal restrictions could be comlex (for example crossing rules, minimum required water levels, maximum boats per day,...). Only the using of tags/values would be very complicated. Thus the restriction should be specified as plain text in english and the local language.
Lakes, that are crossed during a river trip, but where boating is otherwise not allowed (many privat lakes), should be marked as an area with canoe=no and on the line between the river outfalls with canoe=yes.
Natural restrictions
Values:
- suitable
- conditional
- difficult
- unsuitable
Applicable to lakes, restricted areas , rivers, stream, piers , weirs and danger spots .
canoe=no should be used instead of canoe:all=unsuitable. For rivers and streams *:upstream descripes the restrictions when boating upstream.
Natural restrictions for boating (for example minimum water level, getting dry tide dependent, scrub, crossing trees...) sould be specified as plain text in english and the local language.
- canoe:description=TEXT Description for canoe users
- canoe:description:de=TEXT
- canoe:note=TEXT Canoe specific notes for other mappers
Other Tags
- canoe=put_in A place to put in or egress as point, mostly in the middle of a pier or on the riverside (when you have to pay for it: fee=yes).
- The WikiProject_Whitewater_Maps proposes "whitewater=put_in;egress" (the author of the original wikisite DE:WikiProject_Canoe_Maps prefers this shorter form)
- Additional to highway=path
- Public ways for portaging are specified as relation members
Boathouse/Club
Boat rental
- (Alternative suggestions: canoe:service=boat_rental, shop=canoe_hire)
Canoe touring as relations
Connected canoe trails or ways for portaging can be mapped as a relation:
- role="" for waterways
- role=portage for portaging
- role=mark Important signs (often at hard to see exits)
- role=information Maps and other information for canoes
- role=put_in suitable places to put in or egress
Common tags
- width=NUMBER average width of the waterway in meters
- velocity=NUMBER typical speed of the water in the middle of the waterway in km/h
- minvelocity=NUMBER minimum speed of the water in km/h (for example in tide dependent waters), could be negative
- maxvelocity=NUMBER maximum speed of the water in km/h (for example in tide dependent waters)
- maxheight=NUMBER free height in meters (for low bridges)
- waterway:sign=exit Sign for an exit
Examples:
River with low speed
- waterway=river
- width=20
- canoe=yes
River with speed and big stones
- waterway=river
- minvelocity=2
- maxvelocity=6
- width=8
- canoe=yes
- canoe:rowboat=unsuitable
- canoe:K1:upstream=conditional
- canoe:K2:upstream=conditional
- canoe:condition=upstream only when current low or medium
- canoe:condition:de=aufwärts nur bei geringer oder mittlerer Strömung
Waterway for big ships
- canoe=restricted
- canoe:restriction=only orthogonal crossing of waterway
- canoe:restriction:de=Fahrwasser nur rechtwinklig queren
High pier in a habour
- man_made=pier
- height=0.8
- canoe:all=difficult
- canoe:description=high pier, no other egress in this habour
- canoe:description:de=Hoher Steg, einziger Ausstieg in diesem Hafen