Hi all, Thinking about bridge naming. Usually, a bridge will just have the same name as the ways surrounding it. In those cases, the name= tag on the bridge should just be the same as the name= tag on the connecting ways, right?
Here's an example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/172208150 On the other end of the spectrum, there's iconic bridges that everyone knows by their specific name, like the Brooklyn Bridge or the Golden Gate Bridge. These both have the specific bridge name as the name= tag on the corresponding way(s): http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/122660450 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/52477381 There are actually several approaches suggested on the Bridge wiki on how to tag bridge names[1]. The above cases represent the first approach: using the name tag. This may not be appropriate everywhere, however: if the road running across the bridge has a street name, wouldn't it be more appropriate to reserve the name= tag for the street name and put the bridge name in a name_1 or bridge:name tag? (The wiki suggests this in approach #2. There is also an approach using bridge / tunnel relations. I am not a big fan of that one myself). Disadvantage of using a separate tag for bridge names is that they won't get rendered on the default map, as far as I know. (Though that can be changed.) The advantage is that the road itself maintains consistent naming, in concordance with what I feel is the proper use of the name tag - namely to reflect the official (signposted) name of the street. How do you all feel about this? Bridge name on separate tag where the road has a name itself or not? [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bridge - see 'How to map' -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/
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