[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Osmarender requested enhancements

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Fri Jan 25 10:17:00 GMT 2008


On 25/01/2008 02:04, Adrian Frith wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 13:16 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
>> On 25/01/2008, Robert Hart <bathterror at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 17/01/2008, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:
>>>> [As always, please redirect me if necessary.]
>>>>
>>>> Could osmarender please be taught to render "highway=ford"? There are
>>>> going to be some random gaps in various Cumbrian roads otherwise.
>>>>
>>> highway=ford is a node tag. According to map features. There shouldn't
>>> be any gaps.
>> maybe it should be a way as well, some rivers are pretty wide
> 
> Then shouldn't it be highway=<whatever> ford=yes - by analogy with
> bridge=yes and tunnel=yes?

I think the point of being a node is that the river and highway actually 
join so the topology is correct. I don't immediately see how you would 
do that if it were a property of the highway alone, but if you did, I 
agree that ford=yes would be the right way to do it.

I've only come across fords three times while mapping so far. Two were 
fine for nodes, but one was a peculiar arrangement where the stream (two 
streams in fact) ran along the carriageway for about 50m. Indeed there 
was both a road junction and stream junction in the middle of it. I was 
certainly stumped on how to map this without a longer ford, though in 
this case sharing nodes all the way along would have been a possibility.

David






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