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<p>What's wrong with amenity? A weighbridge IS often an amenity, in the sense that people can make use of it as they require to help them stay within the law, for example. The man_made tag is a complete last resort - just about everything we map is man-made. Lets try and get a bit closer to tagging based on function and role.</p>
<p>--colin</p>
<p>On 2015-10-29 15:14, Gerd Petermann wrote:</p>
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<p>I agree that I was very surprised to see that amenity=weighbridge is documented</p>
<p>in the wiki. </p>
<p>I also don't like the idea that it is a some kind of highway, so</p>
<p>man_made=weighbridge </p>
<p>seems to be the new favorite.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>Von:</strong> Warin <61sundowner@gmail.com><br /><strong>Gesendet:</strong> Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2015 12:17<br /><strong>An:</strong> tagging@openstreetmap.org<br /><strong>Betreff:</strong> Re: [Tagging] How to tag a weigh station / bridge ?</span>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><tt>On 29/10/2015 9:39 PM, Gerd Petermann wrote:</tt><tt><br /></tt></div>
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<p><tt>Hi all,</tt></p>
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<p><tt>the wiki documents </tt></p>
<p><tt>amenity=weighbridge (taginfo reports 386 uses)</tt></p>
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<tt><br /></tt><tt>I would NOT use amenity!</tt><tt> <br /><br /> And status=in_use? less than 400 total. <br /><br /></tt>
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<p><tt>Besides several different spellings like </tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>amenity=weigh_bridge (8), weightbridge (3) ,...</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>and other similar tags like</tt></p>
<p><tt>amenity=weigh_station (21)</tt></p>
<p><tt>...</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>I've found several nodes or ways tagged e.g.</tt></p>
<p><tt>highway=weigh_station (60)</tt></p>
<p><tt>highway=weighbridge (9)</tt></p>
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<p><tt>man_made=weighbridge (44)</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>man_made=weigh_bridge (6)</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>man_made=weighing_scale (4)</tt></p>
<p><tt>man_made=weighting_machine (1)</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>and further spelling variatons.</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
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<pre>Of the above I would prefer </pre>
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<pre>Can be applied to railways, highways with equal ease. And yes both railways and highways have them.
A weighting scale, machine may be for postal items, personal scales... a weighbridge is for vehicles.
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<p><tt>weight_sensor=yes (1)</tt></p>
<p><tt>weight_bridge (1)</tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
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<pre>I would think the critical things would be the weight limit and the weight resolution.
Not what kind of sensor is employed. </pre>
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<p><tt>I guess most of them describe the same thing. </tt><tt><br /></tt></p>
<p><tt>It would be great to have a tool which allows to contact</tt></p>
<p><tt>all mappers that used the different versions and ask</tt></p>
<p><tt>them to check if the most often used tag is matching.</tt></p>
<p><tt>Do we have a tool like that ? If not, would it be welcomed?</tt></p>
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<p><tt>Need to be careful not to support spam! <br /> Other than that .. yes, would make contact easier .. but a discussion page would be better rather than private emails? </tt></p>
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