[talk-au] ABC article - Google Maps in Eromanga

I notice this article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-14/google-maps-outback-queensland-street-view-inaccurate/100065310 A good opportunity to make sure the town is 100% accurate (and detailed) in OSM. Assuming we can locate some appropriately licensed sources of course - it's a bit of a tr

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Asset ID's (bridges as a priority)

Hi All, Thanks for all the replies, very helpful. The bridge name seems very clean cut. The asset id, requires more research but first I will have a look into nominatim to see how it could influence how it can play a part in locating assets by their ID. Thanks again, got the job done! On Wed,

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Asset ID's (bridges as a priority)

Other replies already alluded to this, but the bridge is often mapped as an area like at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/604254012 with man_made=bridge. This allows you to tag all the attributes of the bridge distinct from the road way which crosses the bridge. eg. name=* and ref=*. On the main