[Tagging] To mark as covered, or to not mark as covered?

[James Mast]

I'm just curious, but what does everybody think about the 'covered=yes' tag when used on highways?  I know you aren't suppose to use it when the highway goes under a bridge, but I've been noticing more people adding the tag in that case, even though the Wiki page on that tag says you shouldn't.

Anyways, my main question is, do you guys agree with the use of the 'covered=yes' tag in this area: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.42478/-79.95247 ?  If I had been the one working in that area, I wouldn't have even considered adding a 'covered=yes' tag on PA-885 there because when you look at it in Bing, there are (to me) clearly two bridges.  One for the parking lot, and one for the railroad.  Heck, even those ways are tagged as bridges, yet, the highway below them has been split up and tagged with the 'covered=yes' tag on the ways under those 'bridges'.

So, I'd like some opinions on if you think the 'covered=yes' tag applies in that area before I contact the user who did this in Changeset 31110395 ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/31110395 ) (if you want to comment on that changeset too, go right ahead), or via PM.  I also want to state that this isn't the first time this user as done something similar.  I did mention the wiki page on this subject to him back in February when he did a similar, but larger, changeset ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/28876693  ) splitting roads that were clearly roads under bridges.  He did manually remove most of the 'covered=yes' tags from the ways he added them to later in another changeset after my comment, but he never did respond back to me (either via that changest or PM) on that subject to acknowledge that he at least looked or would take a look at the wiki page on this tag.  So, I don't know if he fully read the wiki page or not.

Any help/opinions on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

-James
 		 	   		  
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