Perhaps an example of the two schemes is in its place.<br><br>Examine this area:<br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.999175&lon=5.787731&zoom=18&layers=M">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=58.999175&lon=5.787731&zoom=18&layers=M</a><br>
(Yes, I'm using a small patch my neck of the woods as sandbox for this example. I promise to clean up afterwards :-)<br><br>Left: fords tagged as single nodes.<br>
Right: fords drawn as short ways.<br><br>Top: using highway=ford<br>Bottom: using ford=yes<br><br>Today there is mostly a mix of top-left and bottom-right.<br><br>Again: Left and right co-exist nicely. I do not propose to convert between them. That is of course up to the individual mapper.<br>
Again: What I _do_ propose, is to rename a tag on some elements. From top to bottom in the example.<br><br>best regards<br>