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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:58:50 +0000
"Dave F." <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:

> Mateusz , Simon et al
> 
> I admit I'm a bit of an outsider on this (I prefer going out,
> collecting data to upload) but I'm a bit surprised by these 'it's not
> possible really' comments.
> 
> A few years ago it was announced that the carto schema (or whatever
> you want to call it) was to be 'overhauled to make it simple to edit
> so everybody could lend a hand'. It appears, from what's been said
> here, that it either didn't improve or it's gone back to square one.

It was improved. Old XML style was horrible to edit (see more at
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/08/05/new-rendering-cartocss-stylesheet/
).

> Icons to POIs have been added to the carto in the past few updates
> (ie amenity=fountain), what's different about ford=yes?

Key amenity is loaded in the database used to render this style on the
OSM website, key ford is not (keys that are available for Default style
are listed at
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/master/openstreetmap-carto.style
).