[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Bridge types

Christopher Hoess cahoess at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 23:42:31 GMT 2013


Greetings,

I'd like to draw your attention to the following proposal:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Bridge_types

In short, it's a scheme for marking up bridges (using key:bridge and
key:bridge_type) that's largely based on existing values from Taginfo
and fairly comprehensive. Outside of OSM, there's quite a bit of
interest in bridges, by hobbyists (e.g., bridgehunter.com) and as
objects of tourism or aesthetic interest (particularly covered and
suspension bridges). It makes sense that OSM should support more
detail for bridges, in general, than just whether or not they exist.

 The Humanitarian Data Model includes tagging with a third key,
BaseMaterial, to indicate whether the bridge is made of wood, stone,
iron, etc., but I would prefer to raise that as a separate proposal to
keep the scope of this one manageable. Please leave comments, as I
believe properly documenting these values would increase their use by
taggers and make rendering support more likely.

Yours,

-- 
Chris Hoess



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