Hi Joost, Looks weird for me as well, and I agree with your comments about the ford tagging.
Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 8:38 AM, joost schouppe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone have a look at the "Other crossing" section of the English > language article? [1] > > It used to be very confusing, but I find the current version a bit > strange. The most common river crossing without a bridge should be a simple > "ford=yes". Then you can add all sorts of extra information. The default > the article suggests is flood_prone . This tag is used ten times less in > the database, and seems like a redundant differentiation: it's just that > the ford here is dry most of the time. > > At the time I translated the article to Spanish, I interpreted flood_prone > as "usually there is a bridge, but it's probe to flooding". There's quite a > difference between the articles now. > > On the subject, it might be useful to extend the ford/ferry with suggested > tagging for seasonal effects. For example, there's a ford in dry season, > and a ferry in the wet season. > > Or maybe we should make a general river crossing article on the wiki and > refer the readers there? > > [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa#Other_crossings > > -- > Joost @ > Openstreetmap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> | Reddit > <https://www.reddit.com/u/joostjakob> | Wordpress > <https://joostschouppe.wordpress.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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