[Tagging] bridge:name and tunnel:name

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 00:12:23 UTC 2020


On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 23:45, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Theyargued that name should be the name of the road and bridge:name should
> be used for the name of the bridge.  Which did nothing to change all
> the existing bridges mapped the old way, and didn't get incorporated
> in carto immediately (has it been, yet?)
>

No :-( Have just checked a few around here, & while the bridge renders as a
bridge, the name isn't shown.

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 02:55, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Fortunately OpenStreetMap Carto incentivizes mapping of bridges now (man
> made explicit bridges), so it will probably become the preferred mapping
> style sooner or later


As with many things, the best incentive for using it would be to render the
name!

Thanks

Graeme
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