[Talk-us] National Bridge Inventory

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi,

Has anyone ever looked into using the National Bridge Inventory
(NBI)[1] for adding missing bridges to OSM in the US? I'm pretty sure
TIGER does not have (most) bridges and I'm very sure the community has
not added all the 600k bridges that are in the NBI.
There should be sufficient information in the NBI to match to existing
OSM features: the name of road on and under the bridge and location
(as a point) are recorded.

Downloads: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/ascii.cfm
Metadata summary: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/format.cfm / full
specification doc: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/mtguide.pdf

If it's not already tried and dismissed I'll make a wiki page and we
can take it from there.

[1] http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.htm

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