Key:whitewater

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Description
Whitewater hazard or rapid Show/edit corresponding data item.
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Status: in use
Main article: Whitewater sports

The tag whitewater=* and various tags under the whitewater: namespace have been used to map data relevant to whitewater sports like kayaking and rafting.

Values

Description Element Key and Value Number
Hazard
e.g. a weir
node way whitewater=hazard

Obsolete tags

The following values were in use historically but have since been supplanted. There are no banned tags in OpenStreetMap but you should not expect applications to support these values.

Tag Usage pattern Number Recommended replacement
whitewater=rapid Used as a primary tag for a rapid, or as an attribute meaning a feature has rapids
whitewater=rapids An apparent common mistag of whitewater=rapid
whitewater=portage_way Used with or without a highway tag on way ways to indicate a portage route
whitewater:rapid_grade=* The difficulty grade for an individual rapid, or sometimes a segment of river
  • rapids=* on both individual rapids and segment of rivers
  • The difficulty range of a region of river can be given by rapids=* on a route=canoe relation
whitewater:section_grade=* The difficulty grade for a segment of river, or sometimes an individual rapid, or sometimes an entire region of river
whitewater:grade=* An alternative to whitewater:rapid_grade=* and whitewater:section_grade=*
whitewater:rapid_name=* The name of an individual rapid, or sometimes a segment of river
  • name=* on individual rapids, hazards, access points, etc.
  • rapids:name=* on segments of rivers
  • The name of a region of river can be given by name=* on a route=canoe relation
whitewater:section_name=* The name of an individual rapid, or sometimes a segment of river, or sometimes an entire region of river
whitewater:name=* The name of an individual rapid, hazard, access point, etc.; or sometimes the name of a segment of river
whitewater:description=* Paddle-related info for a segment of river, individual rapid, hazard, access point, etc.
  • description=* on individual rapids and features, and on waterways for general info, e.g.
  • canoe:description=* on waterways for info relevant only to paddlers, e.g. how to approach
  • rapids:description=* on waterways for more details on the rapids if not covered by the above tags

See also