[OSM-dev] Why is ford=yes not rendered in the default style?

[Holger Jeromin]

Gerd Petermann wrote on 26.11.2015 10:57:
> I know we should not map for the renderer, but why is 
> the deprecated and rarely used highway=ford
> rendered with a nice icon on https://www.openstreetmap.org
> while the much more often and documented 
> ford=yes is not ?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Standard_tile_layer
links to
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues
in the second sentence. Search there "ford" and you get:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/267

Right now it is technically not possible, but will be in the future.

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regards
Holger