[OSM-talk] Bridge tags

[Ben Ward]

(back to maps for me)

Sorry to bring up the bridge tags again. Luckily I'm not proposing
another way of doing it, just trying to clarify what's best practice.

The area I've been working on recently has a few bridges (hooray for
Devon) and since finding a way of not having to wait for a non-broken
planet to render, I've found myself trying to fix the bridges so they
sit correctly.  Unfortunately I'm still confused over which element
gets the bridge tags.

Is it the way?  Do I have to break up the way, re-create it, and make
it bridge=true, layer=1 then create two surrounding ways?

Or do I delete the way, edit the underlying segment with bridge=true,
layer=1 then recreate the way?

If it's the former, is there a way in JOSM to split a way (like the merge ways)?
If it's the latter, can I somehow edit the attributes of a segment
without deleting the way which uses it?

Ben

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