Hi All, Apologies for the boring subject, but I'd like to talk about mapping out Culverts on (way/highway) roads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culvert The reason we would like to map these is that they influence road usage and in particular usage for heavy vehicles. They are very much like a bridge in that they have weight & width limits and often have conditions of use (such as maximum speed) or considerations during natural disaster scenarios (i.e. flooding). *Note - tagging should be on the way, not on a node.* This subject has a long-running chequered past that hasn't reached a conclusion https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:tunnel%3Dculvert#.22Tagging_controversy.22_section >From my understanding, the convention is to tag the water course (i.e. river/stream/creek) as tunnel=culvert. It's great as it models where water traverses man made structures and I can see it helping many scenarios. However, it doesn't help with road usage. We need to model/tag the culvert as part of the road infrastructure. Questions : What are the correct tagging for the ways below? - Way https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28010677 : - *Q: Tagged as a bridge, but should it be? What else is missing?* <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28010677> - Way https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/783119480 - Way needs to be split - Currently it is not tagged, only the water course is tagged with tunnel https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/27885431 - *Q: What should the (split) segment be tagged with?* We plan to be tagging a lot of culverts in the future, so it's important for use to get some clarity around this for obvious reasons. Thanks for reading & look forward to hearing your responses. Andrew
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