[Tagging] bridge movable vs swing vs swinging

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Fri Aug 8 11:07:04 UTC 2014


On 08.08.2014 11:35, Richard Z. wrote:
> My idea was 
> * abandon bridge=swing in favor of bridge=movable which could provide 
>   subtyping if someone really needed it.

We already have an approved proposal that provides this subtyping:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Bridge_types

> * introduce bridge=suspension bridge=simple_suspension

Said proposal also introduces bridge:structure=suspension.

So I think the only problem is to get people to use these tags instead
of the problematic bridge=swing.



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