[Talk-GB] Is this a footbridge?

[Nick Allen]

Hi,
The scale is on the bottom left of the window - the length of line
varies according to the amount of zoom you use. It's there on the main
OSM website when you are viewing as well. Very easy to miss.
Regards
Nick(Tallguy)
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 18:18 +0100, Martin Wynne wrote:
> On 05/05/2019 17:39, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
> Given the small width of the ditch, I wouldn't bother with the
> separate way, but just put the ford & handrail tags on the
> intersecting node.
> The way you've mapped it the ford & handrail are 5 metres in length.
> Thanks Dave.
> I have shortened it to about 2 metres (I think).
> I'm reluctant to remove the separate way. In this case the stream is
> very narrow, but in other cases it often isn't. A bridge has a finite
> span length, a culvert has a finite length, and a ford surely has a
> length too? If the stream was mapped as water between separate banks,
> it would look a bit daft to have only a single node in the centre
> tagged as a ford.
> p.s. Am I missing something? How can I see the actual dimensions of
> an element in the iD editor?
> cheers,
> Martin.
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