[Talk-us] National Bridge Inventory

[Josh Doe]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1 regarding Keepright. I've thought about doing something with NBI
before, but it got pushed down the (long) queue.
-Josh