On Tuesday 01 December 2009 00:20:20 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > there is a proposal for it since March 2007, you can simply find it by > typing causeway in search. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Causeway
That page says: Status: Abandoned That search shows you as the fourth result that it is a rejected feature. Apparently more people didn't find it worthwhile to pursue that tag separately. > IMHO it is a very important difference that the causeway is > frequently below water (tides). Hence it should be marked different. Where do you get the idea that a causeway is periodically inundated from? There certainly are some that are inundated at high tide, but a lot of them are not. 1) If the raised bank crosses a lake or the sea, it is called a causeway. 2) If the raised bank crosses a dry valley or a valley with a smal creek, it is called an embankment. 3) If the raised bank crosses a swamp or marsh, it can be called either a causeway or an embankment. Ergo: the English language is fuzzy about the difference. Even the rendering example on the embankment=yes wiki page is about a cycleway crossing a lake. If you really want to tag them differently it probably more in line with other OSM tags, to tag it as embankment=causeway. See e.g. the bridge=viaduct tag. -- m.v.g., Cartinus -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk