One reason it would be useful to be able to tag bridges (and, to a lesser 
extent, tunnels) as single physical objects is that they may be used as 
landmarks.  For example, you may be traveling along a street that runs parallel 
to a river, looking for a location just past a certain bridge.  If the renderer 
showed three bridges, for example, due to the tagging, but there is really just 
one bridge, you may end up going past your intended destination before 
realizing that the map didn't match reality.


Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote:
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>On 05/giu/2013, at 11:30, François Lacombe
><[email protected]> wrote:
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>> We don't need to create dedicated geometry for an highway tunnel
>since the geometry of the road gives the path followed by this tunnel.
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>for Road tunnels this is mostly true, but if you look at caves or mines
>it is different. I was more pointing at bridges here anyway.
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>> So we can precise it in the "role" attribute of the tunnel/bridge
>relation member which tube the road way represent. Since OSM doesn't
>manage relation member attributes at all, it will be difficult.
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>of course relations can have tags - it is up to the consumer to do sth
>with them
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>cheers,
>Martin
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