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

[Matias D'Ambrosio]

On Sunday 07 December 2008 14:06:50 Stefan Breunig wrote:
> 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.
 Two suggestions:
  1. Tag it as "crossing" instead of "ford", since 'crossing' doesn't imply 
it's shallow. Sounds silly to me to add yet another tag. People in your 
average retirement home don't go through unknown trails crossing fords, maybe 
that's just a cultural thing, though. They could always place their walker 
over the gap and slowly crawl over it.
  2. Get a wooden plank, place it over the gap, tag it as a bridge.

 Ok, now in a more serious tone, this tag may be of use:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale