<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>The scale is on the bottom left of the window - the length of line varies according to the amount of zoom you use. It's there on the main OSM website when you are viewing as well. Very easy to miss.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div>(Tallguy)</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 18:18 +0100, Martin Wynne wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On 05/05/2019 17:39, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>Given the small width of the ditch, I wouldn't bother with the separate </pre><pre>way, but just put the ford & handrail tags on the intersecting node.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The way you've mapped it the ford & handrail are 5 metres in length.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre></pre><pre>Thanks Dave.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I have shortened it to about 2 metres (I think).</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm reluctant to remove the separate way. In this case the stream is </pre><pre>very narrow, but in other cases it often isn't. A bridge has a finite </pre><pre>span length, a culvert has a finite length, and a ford surely has a </pre><pre>length too? If the stream was mapped as water between separate banks, it </pre><pre>would look a bit daft to have only a single node in the centre tagged as </pre><pre>a ford.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>p.s. Am I missing something? How can I see the actual dimensions of an </pre><pre>element in the iD editor?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>cheers,</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Martin.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Talk-GB mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org">Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>