[Tagging] How to tag a weigh station / bridge ?

[Colin Smale]

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 
> 
> 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
> 
> 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. 
>> 
>> highway=weigh_station (60) 
>> 
>> highway=weighbridge (9) 
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>> man_made=weighbridge (44)
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> 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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