Tag:place=ocean

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Description
The world's five main major oceanic divisions. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: places
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
Status: de factoPage for proposal
Splitting Earth's oceanic waters into oceans is subjective, mapping one selected division or all of them is not useful in OpenStreetMap

For identifying and locating the world's five main major oceanic divisions, see  Ocean:

  • Arctic Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Southern Ocean

Note that seas (parts of oceans) are mapped separately, see place=sea.

How to Map

Add place=ocean and name:code=* (where code is ISO 639 code of the language) to the appropriate node. Because oceans belong to all nations, they don't have one main name, so leave the tag name=* empty.

Example

place=ocean
name:en=Atlantic Ocean
name:eo=Atlantiko
name:fr=Océan Atlantique
name:it=Oceano Atlantico
name:ja=大西洋
name:pt=Ilhas do Oceano Atlântico
name:es=Océano Atlántico

place=ocean
name:en=Pacific Ocean
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305640005#map=4/-0.57/-107.84&layers=P

References

  1. Borders of the oceans on Wikipedia

See also