[OSM-newbies] Small streams under minor tarmac roads

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrlists at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 12 10:36:17 GMT 2009


James Ewen wrote:
>Sent: 11 November 2009 9:29 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Small streams under minor tarmac roads
>


>I still think that the tunnel tag covers it very well.

Ah, but a pipe under a road is not a tunnel. Though I can understand why the
layman might simplify it that way.

I've added a note about culverts to the wiki [1] for those that want to use
it.

Cheers

Andy
(Tunnel engineer and underground infrastructure specialist as well as mapper
;-) )

[1]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping/Features/Waterway#Rivers.2C_strea
ms_and_canals






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