Tag:waterway=milestone

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Public-images-osm logo.svg waterway = milestone
Hektometerstein.jpg
Description
A landmark of stone or metal to indicate the distance traveled along a watercourse. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: waterways
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
See also
Status: de factoPage for proposal

Used for a distance marker along a waterway. The signs/markers with the river kilometres can be found left or right on the shore.

How to map

For the pole/board/marker stone on the shore

Draw a node node and add the following:

Optional seamark tags:

For the virtual kilometre point in the river

Place a point node directly on the way way that represents the waterway and add the following:

Optional seamark tags:

Rendering on OpenSeaMap

The black circles are the milestones or the hectometre stone (hm1), the coloured circles are the virtual kilometre points.

See also

Similar tags

For “modern” milestones:

For “historic” milestones:

Gallery