On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 11/23/2011 5:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > Yes, this would fit the proposed tag. As you can see from your picture > > not beeing aware about the tide situation can cost your life. IMHO > > this kind of road merits its own main highway tag, it would be too > > dangerous to rely on subtags, and it's overall characteristics are too > > different from a "normal road" (a road which doesn't get regularily > > flooded). > > This is similar to a low water crossing: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_water_crossing > I don't think we use any special highway=* tags for those, or for other roads > that may be dangerous at times (e.g. heavy snow, military proving grounds). If > someone ignores signs and physical conditions, it's not our fault, and we > shouldn't tag incorrectly to get routing software to ignore these roads.
Agreed. Otherwise we'll end up never-ending arguments about how frequently the road has to be dangerous to warrant such special tags and what danger is dangerous enough. ...Instead I wish that hazard=* (or like) tag and namespace would be developed and standardized to collect this kind of information. -- i. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
