[Tagging] How to tag a weigh station / bridge ?
Colin Smale
colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Thu Oct 29 14:41:54 UTC 2015
What's wrong with amenity? A weighbridge IS often an amenity, in the
sense that people can make use of it as they require to help them stay
within the law, for example. The man_made tag is a complete last resort
- just about everything we map is man-made. Lets try and get a bit
closer to tagging based on function and role.
--colin
On 2015-10-29 15:14, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> I agree that I was very surprised to see that amenity=weighbridge is documented
>
> in the wiki.
>
> I also don't like the idea that it is a some kind of highway, so
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> man_made=weighbridge
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> seems to be the new favorite.
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> VON: Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>
> GESENDET: Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2015 12:17
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> BETREFF: Re: [Tagging] How to tag a weigh station / bridge ?
>
> On 29/10/2015 9:39 PM, Gerd Petermann wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the wiki documents
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>> amenity=weighbridge (taginfo reports 386 uses)
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>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aamenity%3Dweighbridge
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> I would NOT use amenity!
>
> And status=in_use? less than 400 total.
>
>> Besides several different spellings like
>>
>> amenity=weigh_bridge (8), weightbridge (3) ,...
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>> and other similar tags like
>>
>> amenity=weigh_station (21)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I've found several nodes or ways tagged e.g.
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>> highway=weigh_station (60)
>>
>> highway=weighbridge (9)
>>
>> man_made=weighbridge (44)
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>> man_made=weigh_bridge (6)
>>
>> man_made=weighing_scale (4)
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>> man_made=weighting_machine (1)
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>> and further spelling variatons.
>
> Of the above I would prefer
>
> man_made=weighbridge
>
> Can be applied to railways, highways with equal ease. And yes both railways and highways have them.
>
> A weighting scale, machine may be for postal items, personal scales... a weighbridge is for vehicles.
>
>> weight_sensor=yes (1)
>>
>> weight_bridge (1)
>
> I would think the critical things would be the weight limit and the weight resolution.
> Not what kind of sensor is employed.
>
>> I guess most of them describe the same thing.
>>
>> It would be great to have a tool which allows to contact
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>> all mappers that used the different versions and ask
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>> them to check if the most often used tag is matching.
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>> Do we have a tool like that ? If not, would it be welcomed?
>
> Need to be careful not to support spam!
> Other than that .. yes, would make contact easier .. but a discussion page would be better rather than private emails?
>
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