2008/10/30 Robert Helvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > There is a lot of blank canvas where I am mapping (South Korea) and I was > just wondering about a few points. > > It is pretty obvious that you need to make a section of the way into a > bridge if you have something like a road rising over train tracks, a road > dipping below train tracks, one road rising or dipping over/under the other, > flyovers, and actual bridges over major rivers. > > But is it really necessary (or at least what is the common practice) to > create bridges for roads that cross minor rivers or streams with no rise, or > where the water just passes under the road in a couple of box culverts? > > It is obvious on a render that a river and road don't connect, but is there > some necessity for a bridge due to (future?) rendering conditions or > possible routing software? Or would the use of the "layer" tag be good > enough? (Though how to implement the layer tag is still a bit muddy to me. > [Water related pun intended.] ) > > > Thanks > > alimamo (Robert) >
The tag highway=bridge did exist at one time for use on nodes on highways. It seems to have been deprecated in favour of bridge=<type>. Note it should not be joined to the waterway, but placed 'over' it. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
