[Talk-ca] Ferry key on ways

[Harald Kliems]

My question would be how the different levels of ferry are defined. What
makes a ferry a "trunk ferry" versus a "primary ferry"? Its speed?
Capacity? Not allowing pedestrians and bikes? My suspicion is that the
classification in the end comes down to which types of roads the ferry
connects, which IMHO doesn't tell you all that much useful about the ferry
itself. That said, I don't see much harm from classifying ferries according
to their connecting roads.

 Harald.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 3:54 AM Ionut Rus - (p) <ionut.rus at telenav.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
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> We are looking into adding the ferry key to ferry ways and we would like
> to have your input first. Looking at the wiki [1] it seems that this key is
> only in proposed stage.
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> As a preliminary check from the 107 ferry elements (route=ferry) in Canada
> only 10 of them have ferry=* tag
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> How would  you approach this topic? Do you think that it’s OK to add them
> in OSM?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Ionut Rus
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> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ferry
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