[Tagging] bridge movable vs swing vs swinging

Richard Z. ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 09:26:34 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:23:35AM -0400, Christopher Hoess wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:57 PM, SomeoneElse <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > For the benefit of anyone looking at taginfo stats in this thread, it's
> > worth mentioning that there's some "non-survey-based" editing going on:
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24690099
> >
> >
> All "bridge=drawbridge" to "bridge=movable bridge:movable=drawbridge". The
> bigger problem is that many of these bridges, whether originally tagged by
> local surveyors or not, are probably strictly speaking bascule bridges,
> "drawbridge" being used casually for any sort of movable bridge.

it was a test to see what can go wrong during such conversion. There were
quite some odd cases, like bridge=drawbridge used to "draw" the outline of 
the bridge.

Some time in the future I would like to review all bridge=swing and fix
at least those which are not movable at all but hanging rope bridges
instead.

Richard



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