[OSM-newbies] How to map a place that allows to cross a waterway=stream

[Stefan Breunig]

It's not shallow. It's just a suitable place where you can jump over
the stream – to get your feet wet you have to "climb" down about half
a meter and up again. It's clearly not the preffered way as your hands
and clothes will likely get muddy, your feet wet… so a ford would be
downright misleading because even eldery can cross a ford, but this
place requires you to be able to jump about 0.5m to 1m and not slip.

Greetings
xeen

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 14:41, Alberto Nogaro <bartosomail at yahoo.it> wrote:
> How should we mark the point where a path crosses a shallow stream? That is,
> the stream is shallow enough (under normal conditions) at crossing point,
> but not particularly shallow relative to the rest of the stream? If we
> cannot mark the crossing as a ford, how can we point out that a stream must
> be crossed, requiring the same cautions as when crossing at a place which is
> shallow relative to the rest of the stream?
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-
>>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Adrian
>>Sent: domenica 7 dicembre 2008 13.47
>>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] How to map a place that allows to cross a
>>waterway=stream
>
> [...]
>>Thorir Jonsson wrote:
>> > "A ford is a place in a watercourse (most commonly a stream or river)
>> > that is shallow enough to be crossed by wading, on horseback, or in a
>> > wheeled vehicle."
>>
> [...]
>>
>>Doesn't mention shallow anywhere. If a crossing place isn't shallow
>>relative to the rest of the stream it isn't a ford.
>
>
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