Also FWIW, Washington State Ferries are considered part of the state highway system. For example: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=47.17.080
"Fare" is more common than "toll" here ( https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/fares/) but I don't recall ever hearing "fee" in the context of a ferry. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 04:55 Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I asked my wife (native American English speaker) how she would > describe a ferry that wasn't free. She thought of paying a fare first, > for foot ferries, but when pressed suggested that "Toll ferry" was > better than something with "fee" > > Searching online, I'm finding results for both "toll ferry" and "fee > ferry" from official ferry website, so it seems both terms are used in > parts of the Egnlish-speaking world. > > In Washington State, the regulations refer to "toll ferries" along > with "toll bridges": > https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Ferries/infodesk/faq/terms/ > > And this link from England refers to a "toll ferry": > https://www.roads.org.uk/articles/studland-motor-road/making-motor-road > > So it looks like this is a reasonable usage based on plain language. > > On 6/19/19, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > sent from a phone > > > >> Il giorno 19 giu 2019, alle ore 13:08, Martin Koppenhoefer > >> <dieterdre...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> > >> The term „toll“ applies to usage fees for roads, bridges and tunnels (I > >> think, I am not a native speaker though), it doesn’t seem right for a > >> ferry. > > > > > > I just noticed the wiki has exactly the same requirements for the toll > tag: > > „Use toll=* to indicate that a fee must be paid by general traffic to > use a > > road, road bridge or road tunnel.“ > > > > so clearly it doesn’t fit for ferries, and we shouldn’t suggest it in the > > wiki on the ferry page... > > > > Cheers, Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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