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

[Lester Caine]

Craig Wallace wrote:
> On 24/10/2010 20:02, Gorm E. Johnsen wrote:
>> There are now few, if any, ways with highway=ford left.
>> They have all been changed to highway=<whatever the connecting ways are>
>> + ford=yes <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford>.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what to do with the 4800 nodes also tagged with
>> highway=ford?
>> Change them to ford=yes all in one go as well?
>
> It would be helpful to follow the usual tag proposal process to
> deprecate highway=ford, and replace it with ford=yes.
>
> Then you should update any editors or renderers or other applications to
> support this.
>
> Then, after this, you could consider making bulk changes.
>
> I do agree that replacing highway=ford with ford=yes is a good idea,
> though it should be done properly, and not breaking existing applications.

As long as the DISTANCE of the water area of the ford can be handled by this 
change then it may be acceptable, but simply tagging a node is not the right way 
to provide ALL of the information that would be useful when it comes to 
micro-mapping the details?

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