Talk:Tag:highway=ford
Ford Classifications
Any suggestions by anyone how different categories of fords should be recorded?
For example how would you distinguish the following:
- Surfaced fords at a point such as Barwick Ford
- Irish Bridges at a point, such as Buntingford
- Unsurfaced fords at a point with surfaced approaches, such as Standon
- Unsurfaced fords at a point with unsurfaced approaches, such as Latchford
- Unsurfaced fords running along river beds for a distance, such as Furneaux Pelham (south from this point for about a mile.
- Surfaced fords running along river beds for a distance, such as near Hazel End
- Surfaced tidal roads running in or across the sea (e.g. to Holy Island)
- Unsurfaced tidal roads running in or across the sea (e.g. Maplin Sands)
-- ford=yes is a very good proposal. Joosep-Georg 17:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
In the short term, I've tried using surface=paved or surface=unpaved against the ford node to indicate whether it is surfaced or not. I'm not sure how an Irish Bridge would be recorded? I think a ford=yes tag against a highway 'way' may work, but it would need to be rendered somehow. Another suggestion for consideration that user:sk53 raised would be the addition of a depth_guage=yes tag to the ford node. Any suggestions would be most welcome.... C2r 22:53, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I'm new here and have no experience about the correct syntax. But I'm missing information like:
- ford_depth=40 (ford is normally 40cm deep)
- ford_remark=* (e.g. "Glacier river. In the morning 30cm deep; in evening 60cm deep)
The depth could important for routing. In the future may different colors possible.
-- Speleo 22:58, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Ford Rendering
In Mapnik a Ford is rendered by a vehicle ford image. Does somebody knows what are the action to be taken to render the ford by a different symbol when it is on a footpath ? Matclab 16:28, 16 August 2010 (BST)
