Talk:Tag:route=portage

Larger ships

How https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Statek_na_trawie_-_pochylnia_Buczyniec_na_Kanale_Elbl%C4%85skim_-_panoramio.jpg/960px-Statek_na_trawie_-_pochylnia_Buczyniec_na_Kanale_Elbl%C4%85skim_-_panoramio.jpg should be tagged? Is this also eligible?

If not, how it should be tagged?

Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 14:33, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Good point. The way paddle mappers have been using the the term "portage" in OSM has been to mean "person carrying a boat on foot". Conflating this with rail or vehicular portages would be kind of like conflating route=road with route=foot and would cause similar issues. I'm not aware of a tag used to map non-foot portages yet. Quincylvania (talk) 15:29, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

My advise would be to invent even route=large_ship_portage or anything else and use it in known cases, otherwise we will get the same process as we got with natural=tree (originally for notable or lone trees) or historic=wayside_shrine (now used also for modern ones) and so on. Or maybe route=portage should be used for all portages? Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 16:17, 7 July 2026 (UTC)