[talk-au] Causeways
Mark Pulley
mrpulley at lizzy.com.au
Mon May 25 00:40:26 BST 2009
Quoting Delta Foxtrot <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
> Wikipedia has 2 distinct entries, a ford is something close to the
> usual concrete slab I'm thinking/refering to, the US version of a
> causeway looks like a built up piece of land acting like a low
> bridge, although they do seem to have a Western Australian reference
> as well.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_(crossing)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway
>
> Looking at the photos above a ford looks the closest to what I'd
> call a causeway.
Wikipedia also has
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_water_crossing - this is what I have
been thinking of as 'causeway'.
Do we need a new setting highway=low_water_crossing ?
Mark P.
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