The English Wikipedia article on navigable aqueducts gives "water bridge" as an alternate English-language name for such structures.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] bridge=aqueduct mapped as polygon riverbank? >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Mon Jan 03 11:44:11 America/Chicago 2011 2010/12/19 Dave F. <[email protected]>: > Hi > > Does anyone have an example of a bridge=aqueduct/yes that's been mapped as > polygon riverbank to give width to the waterway? I would say that riverbank is not the right tag for any kind of bridges. The wiki says for riverbanks: "This describes the tagging scheme for large rivers, or sections of a river which are wide enough to require mapping of distinct areas of water/river banks." so doesn't actually define anything for canals ;-) (OK, maybe we should amend this definition and substitute "river" by "waterway" or "body of flowing water" so that canals are comprised). The "require" part of the definition is pointless IMHO, as it is never "required" but could be useful anywhere. I guess your question refers to situations like: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:KanalbrueckeDigoin.jpg&filetimestamp=20081223125641 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:WasserstrassenkreuzMinden.jpg&filetimestamp=20060105185751 more can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigable_aqueduct In German those would probably not be called "aqueduct" at all, (in German this is called "Trogbrücke", which is kind of a bridge), that's why I have some barrier in accepting that this is a kind of aqueduct (maybe "navigable aqueduct" is not part of "aqueducts"?). I think this is not a problem reduced to waterways but we should have a better representation for bridges in general. I'd propose to have an outlining polygon for the bridge, that describes the whole bridge area, and to which a name for the bridge and other data can be associated, which would also solve the problem whether 2 adjacent bridges are really 2 separate bridges or simply one that seems to be 2 in OSM. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
