Template talk:Waterways legend

Highways Suggestion

What is meant by "over highway international"? Shouldn't this be simply "over highway" or "over national highway" if you want to restrict it to major roads?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:57, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many countries use

to denote an expressway (hence “international”), whereas is the British standard for motorway. Useddenim (talk) 23:08, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Missing symbols

There seem to be quite a few symbols missing, see for example Template:TandM Canal Route Map. How do we figure out what they mean?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 13:17, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The diagram displays correctly. Try purging your browser’s cache and reloading the page. Useddenim (talk) 23:08, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I spotted a missing symbol on the map for the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. The missing symbol is a double-headed red arrow. Maybe it means the upper limit of tidal influence. Oaklandguy (talk) 01:07, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's not missing. It's actually

(POINTERu) adjacent to

(POINTERd). As to what it means, your guess is as good as mine. Useddenim (talk) 13:15, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Locks - which side is up?

Hi, for the less waterways-savvy people, could someone please amend the legent of locks (uLock3) and related structures to say whether they point upwards or downwards? Thanks! Pbro (talk) 16:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Locks I believe are placed so that the point is facing into the flow of the water, thus ensuring that they stay closed.Deonyi (talk) 12:07, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

weir icon is facing the wrong way?

Key to symbols

					Ocean or sea
					Feeder reservoir
					Start/end of navigable section
					Weir
					White water pool
					Reservoir
					Large reservoir

judging by the direction of the dams on the reservoir and large reservoir, the direction of water flow should be moving up from the perspective of the reader. the pointy parts of the weir should be going with the flow, but instead they are going against the flow. should the weir icon be flipped so the pointy parts go up instead of down from the perspective of the reader? Bg's school acc (talk) 02:17, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The weir(and all other symbols shown on this key) can be placed in different directions depending on the weir's (or other structure/feature's) relation to the waterway. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BSicon/Catalogue/watercourses for all possible symbols that can be inserted into a waterway map. Paintrayn89 (talk) 03:51, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]