Hi, Lately a mapper has been adding heaps of fords in SE QLD bushland along with more creeks/streams, however I've noticed quite a lot of the fords aren't actually fords based on my local knowledge of the area. I tried commenting on a changeset (https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/58540304) 2 weeks ago and again a week ago without a response, they have been active in that time and appear to be a long time contributor, but I'm now at a loss on how to contact them.
My question isn't about what they've been doing, but about the fact I've not wanted to split ways and try to line up a tiny culvert or bridge when they are physically so small, however because they haven't been mapped someone is now incorrectly added fords. Many of the culverts are just a small pipe (sometimes as small as 20mm diameter and 0.5m long) with dirt over it to keep the trail dry (the trail is usually built up a little in the low lying area), and many of the bridges are only a metre long timber bridge especially those added for MTB. The wiki states that bridge=* and tunnel=* should not be used on nodes, so I've not used them and in the past only mapped fords (many which have big sized gravel or stepping stones) and obviously use a shared node. I've read a bunch of discussion on this topic and agree that splitting ways to model these is overkill as the tags on each way can get out of sync and get in the way, but removing the incorrect fords and not putting something in their place irks me. The wiki's comment about a ford: "You are both on the highway and in the waterway, and not separated logically as a stream under a bridge would be" makes complete sense, and I don't want shared nodes for these cases even though many streams are intermittent. Finally my question, why couldn't we map a culvert as a node of a waterway, or a bridge as a node of a highway? The only other option I can think of is to add a note to a node of highway/waterway describing what is there so someone doesn't add a ford. Thanks, Jono https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:bridge#Simple_one-node_brunnels_for_way_over_waterway https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Simple_one_node_culvert_or_bridge https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/18182/how-do-i-show-a-stream-crossing-beneath-a-road-in-a-culvert https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-October/027063.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-April/thread.html#17202 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford
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