[OSM-talk] Bridges

Tom Chance tom at acrewoods.net
Mon Oct 16 11:31:23 BST 2006


Ahoy,

On Sunday 15 October 2006 20:31, Ben Robbins wrote:
> I also have 2 differnt tags for footbridge and bridge...
>
> I was thinking of doing it so that i just have 'bridge', but that is
> addtional to the highway type.  So it woudl be highway=Motorway then
> Motoway=bridge, or Motorway=tunnel, or unclassified=gate for example.

Isn't this why we have the "bridge=yes/no" tag? So you have:

highway=motorway
bridge=yes

And incidentally this makes the "footbridge" tag redundant, since you just 
have:

highway=footway
bridge=yes

Regards,
Tom

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