Today I passed the dam / weir combination you see on the areal photo:
I drew an area for the weir on the right, but I don;t know how to set waterway=weir
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway=weir?uselang=en
Well, I can type it in, but it’s unclear to me what base type I should select in the online editor.
Am Ii missing something?
Thanks Timo
Most of the times I just limit myself to just map a simple straight line end to end and a connection where it crosses the waterway. Sometimes the longer ones have a slight arc so it becomes more nodes. Type ‘weir’ in the JOSM preset selector and it pops up, enter, done. As an area, can’t remember having done that.
Thank you.
I read somewhere an area could be used but as son as I used a line the type was found.
Drawing weirs as areas is actually pretty common, and it’s certainly possible to try and render them as something. Of the maps available at the osm.org site, Tracetrack Topo looks like it has a go at showing these too.
OSM Carto (the “standard” map) does not. It is unfortunately moribund as a map style and that likely isn’t going to change until the maintainer realises that they are the problem and leaves, and another group from within the community steps up to maintain one or more “reference map styles” instead. Until that happens you can use other styles - of the ones linked to directly by osm.org, Tracetrack Topo is an excellent choice currently for this sort of feature.
Edit: Typo
