On 25/08/12 14:49, Andrew Errington wrote: > I remember this happening, and it seemed like a Good Thing at the time, > although I had only mapped one ford. > > It was suggested that highway=ford should be deprecated and replaced with > ford=yes. > > So "ford" itself is not lost, it has moved from a value to become a key. > > I like this approach. Do you think it's such a bad thing?
+1 same as tunnel and bridge > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:37:20 Philip Barnes wrote: >> Have just spotted this changeset whilst looking through changes near me? >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12837424 This is vandalism as only the tag of the node was deleted but the highway should have been split and ford=yes added. Please, contact the editor to avoid similar changes. >> Everyone should know what a ford is, and obviously the depth or if there >> is water will depend on the recent weather. Seems this user did not really know. >> The decision was made by what appears to have been made by a vote by 5 >> people. >> >> Why has it not been discussed in this mailing list where it will be seen >> by someone who is not searching the wiki for Fords today. Do not know and yes, it should have been at least mentioned here. I got to know about it through JOSM validator. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
