[Talk-us] National Bridge Inventory

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 2/14/2012 6:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> 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.

I think it would be very useful as a Keepright-style site that 
automatically checks for a bridge there but also allows saying the NBI 
data is bogus. (Perhaps we could then send any such information to the 
NBI?) Anything more automated than that would really not work due to 
location differences, name differences, and other issues.