Is the second picture a valve ?
https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-sluice-gate.htm  This page calls it
sluice gate. I'm not familiar with the terminology, so perhaps experts
can enlighten me.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:23 PM François Lacombe
<fl.infosrese...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Le mer. 17 juil. 2019 à 15:07, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dsluice_gate
>>
>> The person that added this page, is not happy with
>> waterway=flow_control; flow_control=sluice_gate
>> (discussion on Belgian Forum:
>> https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=66728 )
>
>
> I'm sorry I can't be part of Ducth discussions.
> Both waterway=flow_control + flow_control=sluice_gate and 
> waterway=sluice_gate aren't properly described on wiki and used respectively 
> about 500 and 250 times each.
> A proposal remains about the first 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sluice_gate
>
> As a reviewed key valve=gate exists, I'd be in favor of a third possibility : 
> waterway=valve + valve=gate
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:valve%3Dgate (I know one of the 
> examples involves a sluice gate and described as pipeline=valve).
> This would be consistent with pipeline=valve (equivalent of flow control 
> device) + valve=gate.
> waterway=valve would be designed for every situation where pipeline=valve 
> isn't suitable (i.e when the duct isn't a pipeline, for free flow canals, 
> tunnels and so on...)
>
> All the best
>
> François
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