[HOT] highway tag africa

[Severin Menard]

Hi Joost,

Looks weird for me as well, and I agree with your comments about the ford
tagging.

Sincerely,

Severin

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:38 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could someone have a look at the "Other crossing" section of the English
> language article? [1]
>
> It used to be very confusing, but I find the current version a bit
> strange. The most common river crossing without a bridge should be a simple
> "ford=yes". Then you can add all sorts of extra information. The default
> the article suggests is flood_prone . This tag is used ten times less in
> the database, and seems like a redundant differentiation: it's just that
> the ford here is dry most of the time.
>
> At the time I translated the article to Spanish, I interpreted flood_prone
> as "usually there is a bridge, but it's probe to flooding". There's quite a
> difference between the articles now.
>
> On the subject, it might be useful to extend the ford/ferry with suggested
> tagging for seasonal effects. For example, there's a ford in dry season,
> and a ferry in the wet season.
>
> Or maybe we should make a general river crossing article on the wiki and
> refer the readers there?
>
> [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa#Other_crossings
>
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