> Sometimes they both have names and occasionally the two names differ. I haven’t a solution for that.
Two separate ways, sharing the same nodes. On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 12:51 AM Tod Fitch <t...@fitchdesign.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 8, 2018, at 2:31 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I would recommend drawing a separate “way” for the highway. I imagine > that the route taken by vehicles or people walking is a few meters off of > the center of the waterway, and perhaps a little straighter. If you are > coarsest tracing the waterway and road, then the two ways might share most > of their nodes. > > As soon as I got to your “I imagine that” I decided you’ve no experience > in this and I should discount anything that follows. > > In the desert southwest of the United States where I was raised they call > the usually dry water courses a “wash”. And they are often used for vehicle > travel when dry which is almost all of the time. In hilly or mountainous > areas the width of the waterway is often no wider than most vehicles so > there is no place “a few meters off the center of the waterway”. And my > experience in walking/hiking along them is you are often in the middle of > the most recent route of flood waters as the walking is easier there (less > debris, etc.). > > I don’t like the OSM mapping options but what I’ve settled on is a single > way tagged as: > > ford=yes > highway=track > intermittent=yes > surface=sand > waterway=stream > > Some of the washes have names. Some of the tracks have names. Sometimes > they both have names and occasionally the two names differ. I haven’t a > solution for that. > > It would be nice if there was a way to tag the intermittent flow as > ephemeral but that has been “bike shedded” to death here before. I > know/hope that anyone local will have a pretty good idea about whether or > not there is likely to be water in the drainage (a summer cloudburst > locally or in the adjacent higher ground) and be smart enough not to enter > it for the couple of hours that a water event is likely to last. > > Cheers! > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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