[OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

[Andrew Errington]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:41:02 Pieren wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > Well don't redefine any I have mapped as 'path', because most would
> > have been for vehicles.
> > Again, don't retag without having visited the site.
>
> Sorry, perhaps I missed something but the suggestion was to replace
> highway=ford by ford=yes on "nodes", not "ways".
> I think something similar was done in the past with highway=barrier and I
> don't understand the arguments against this change.

It could apply equally to ways or nodes.

ford=yes on a way means (to me) that this segment of the way is often covered 
with water.  ford=yes on a node means (to me) that the ford is very short.

Best wishes,

Andrew