[Talk-GB] Changing highway=ford to ford=yes.

[Mike Baggaley]

I think that if an intersecting highway and waterway are mapped just as lines, then these represent the full width of the highway and waterway and it is illogical to use a line or area to represent the ford. If either the highway or waterway is mapped as an area then I would expect the ford to be mapped both as a line across the area and also as a node at the intersection of the centre line. Only if both highway and waterway are mapped as areas would expect the ford to be mapped as an area (and also as a node at the intersection of the centre lines).

Regards,
Mike

On 06/01/2019 16:44, Martin Wynne wrote:
> For example I have just been updating a local ford well-known to me, 
> over the River Rea at Neen Savage:
>
>  https://goo.gl/maps/NetZQD1UVfE2
>
>  https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.39462/-2.47891
>
> That section of the river is mapped as an area, so I have added an 
> area of it as landuse=ford where it is also an area of road.