> On 27 August 2010 10:04, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The way I understand it, a culvert is just a tiny pseudo-bridge, >> physically >> equivalent to a tunnel under an embankment. Culverts don't show up in >> the US >> National Bridge Inventory, which is a database of bridges on public >> roads. >> They normally carry water under roads, but may also carry a private farm >> access road under a highway that splits a farmer's land. > > There was discussion about this sort of thing on the Australian list > some time back, although from memory it was more about what > constitutes a bridge, I can't fully remember the outcome, but imho > anything able to allow something as big as farm machinery or a person > to go under a road would be a tunnel not a culvert. >
to complicate matters, a culvert may cut through a road in rural australia, making a small ford _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
