It's not shallow. It's just a suitable place where you can jump over the stream – to get your feet wet you have to "climb" down about half a meter and up again. It's clearly not the preffered way as your hands and clothes will likely get muddy, your feet wet… so a ford would be downright misleading because even eldery can cross a ford, but this place requires you to be able to jump about 0.5m to 1m and not slip.
Greetings xeen On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 14:41, Alberto Nogaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should we mark the point where a path crosses a shallow stream? That is, > the stream is shallow enough (under normal conditions) at crossing point, > but not particularly shallow relative to the rest of the stream? If we > cannot mark the crossing as a ford, how can we point out that a stream must > be crossed, requiring the same cautions as when crossing at a place which is > shallow relative to the rest of the stream? > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbies- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian >>Sent: domenica 7 dicembre 2008 13.47 >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] How to map a place that allows to cross a >>waterway=stream > > [...] >>Thorir Jonsson wrote: >> > "A ford is a place in a watercourse (most commonly a stream or river) >> > that is shallow enough to be crossed by wading, on horseback, or in a >> > wheeled vehicle." >> > [...] >> >>Doesn't mention shallow anywhere. If a crossing place isn't shallow >>relative to the rest of the stream it isn't a ford. > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
