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

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 10:39:55 GMT 2010


2010/11/2 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>:

> Tag migrations do happen. Sometimes there are good reasons. I think, for
> example, that moving highway=gate to barrier=gate was a sensible change and
> enabled finer-grained tagging in the 'barrier' tag. But it was largely a
> consensus-driven change and the database evolved from one to the other over
> time.


And still there are 1 750 objects tagged as highway=gate in the db.
Could some of the bot-users change them to barrier=gate, please?

Cheers,
Martin

PS: I do agree with the change highway=xy ford=yes on ways.



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