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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Philip Barnes wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Have just spotted this changeset whilst looking through changes near me?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12837424">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12837424</a>
Why has Ford been depreciated? It is the correct definition, and the
word used on road signs.
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I can see the point of changing "highway=ford" on ways to
"highway=blah, ford=yes", but that requires someone to get out from
behind their computer and find out what "blah" should be.<br>
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I don't see any particular reason to actively change a
"highway=ford" node to "ford=yes" - it just looks like meaningless
tagfiddling.<br>
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There are some knock-on issues of removing data like this - maps
that people use will look different. As an example, the osm.org
"standard" map renders "highway=ford" on nodes but not "ford=yes".
There's a <a href="https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2944">trac
ticket</a> logged for it, but the code to incorporate "ford" into
the rendering DB doesn't write itself.<br>
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Perhaps people could be persuaded from removing "deprecated" tags
until they've provided patches for commonly used renderers?<br>
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I suspect that what happened in this case is that the JOSM validator
flagged it, (as I understand it it reads <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features">this
wiki page</a>), so I suspect that the problem is a combination of:<br>
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1) The person* who wrote the "<a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford">key:ford</a>"
page saying "should be deprecated" without thinking it through. <br>
2) The key to be added to "<a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features">Deprecated
Features</a>" without thought as to whether it applies to nodes or
ways.<br>
3) Finally, the mapper blindly following JOSM's validator without
thinking.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Andy<br>
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* Said person also screwed up the mapping of a long ford near me
dispite <a
href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-November/054610.html">this
message</a>.<br>
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