I am not an expert.
The four bridges in my area are similar in construction. They use
boat-shaped floating devices, similar to your antique example. I do not
know whether these are actually (ex-) boats. As far as I know, when they
are opened, typically because of high water flow and consequent
Hi,
the approved and currently active proposal for bridges is not
quite clear on this - the older bridge=pontoon was not obsoleted
but a new bridge=yes+bridge:structure=floating was introduced
with the description A bridge whose load is supported by floating
on water, rather than resting on
2014-09-02 12:16 GMT+02:00 Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com:
Are there floating bridges other than pontoon bridges?
yes, there are bridges supported by boats. These are generally not called
pontoon.
Should pontoon be moved into bridge:structure and replace
floating?
for me floating
yes, there are bridges supported by boats. These are generally not called
pontoon.
Wikipedia does not agree with Martin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge
Ther are at least four boat bridges in Veneto mapped as bridge=pontoon
Way 38380495 http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/38380495Way
2014-09-02 16:14 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com:
Wikipedia does not agree with Martin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge
it depends on the language ;-)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponton
cheers,
Martin
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Here in Western Washington we call them pontoons. See
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520/Pontoons.htm
We've never properly tagged the bridge type but they are pontoons. These
pontoons do not look like the wiki picture, but are big boxes which are
anchored to the lake/ocean floor.
BTW - these
Pontoon bridge is the only term I am familiar with for such bridges.
On September 2, 2014 9:55:00 AM CDT, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
Here in Western Washington we call them pontoons. See
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR520/Pontoons.htm
We've never properly tagged the
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:22:34PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2014-09-02 16:14 GMT+02:00 Volker Schmidt vosc...@gmail.com:
Wikipedia does not agree with Martin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge
it depends on the language ;-)
language problems are a disaster for us.
2014-09-02 17:29 GMT+02:00 Richard Z. ricoz@gmail.com:
Something like pontoon bridge is definitely much better than
floating bridge which may have any number of meanings for different
people - google image search is my favorite method to look for
meanings.
IMHO floating bridge is
Wikipedia does not agree with Martin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge
it depends on the language ;-)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponton
... more on the selection of the correct Wikipedia page:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontonbr%C3%BCcke
:-)
Volker
2014-09-02 17:46 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us:
Then again if I made a pontoon out of concrete, they'd just sink.
While I generally agree with your agreement, this is not true, ships can be
built out of concrete (think aircraft carriers for instance), and German
On 9/2/14 1:12 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2014-09-02 17:46 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
mailto:cliff...@snowandsnow.us:
Then again if I made a pontoon out of concrete, they'd just sink.
While I generally agree with your agreement, this is not true, ships
can
The key is to have enough empty space at the center, so that the overall
density is less than that of water.
On September 2, 2014 12:12:02 PM CDT, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-09-02 17:46 GMT+02:00 Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us:
Then again if I made a
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
While I generally agree with your agreement, this is not true, ships can
be built out of concrete (think aircraft carriers for instance), and German
universities even hold a regular competition who builds the
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