[amenity-symbols] mapnik: render highway=ford on ways

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Reporter: scai
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 4.18pm, Monday, 24th May 2010]

Hi,

highway=ford already gets rendered for nodes, but not for ways although about one third of the tag is applied to ways.

Regards, Alex

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Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.37pm, Thursday, 3rd June 2010]

I already have this on the Haiti map, but when I went to apply that to the generic map, I found it produced unexpected results. Actually, on the Haiti map, I render them about the same as unclassified, but with a bluish hue and broken casing[1]. In Haiti, that works, but elsewhere in the world, these highway=ford connect to highway=track, and the result is a displeasing mix of a generic track and a bluish unclassified where the ford is.

This, of course, is the unfortunate effect of the upper class highway=ford, which carries no other information about what type of road it actually is, versus the more logical lower class ford=yes[2] on a highway=track (or unclassified, or whichever other type). Unfortunately, highway=ford is still promoted on Map Features, while the alternative ford=* isn't.

[1] http://haiti.openstreetmap.nl/?zoom=16&lat=18.21342&lon=-73.87641&layers=B00FFFFFFFFFF

[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ford

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Author: claudius.h[at]gmx.de
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.51am, Tuesday, 2nd November 2010]

See also http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2944 "Please render ford=yes"

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Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.08pm, Monday, 14th April 2014]

This is duplicate with https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2944