[OSM-talk] Bridge tags

[Mike Collinson]

Tom is the only one to directly answer the question so far (which 
boils down to Should bridges be tagged at a way or segment level?), 
so we are still a bit short on clarifying what's best practice.  What 
do other folk think / do?

I've been doing the exact opposite. I've been using the JOSM ALT-key 
+ select a segment method described by other respondents and make the 
segment bridge=yes.  [and I'll now start adding layer=1, good idea]

I feel that that is what segments are there for, recording local 
variations of short geographic extent.  Making a new Way every time a 
road crosses a bridge, enters a tunnel, passes a row of houses, has 
an unsealed section, has passing-lane sections, has a cycle lane 
entering it ... etc just does not seem practical to me and I don't 
have the time.  My rationale is that even if the info doesn't render 
now, at least it is there.

Mike

At 12:09 AM 5/01/2007, Tom Chance wrote:
>Ahoy,
>
>On Thursday 04 January 2007 15:20, Ben Ward wrote:
> > 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?
>
>Yes.
>
>
> > 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?
>
>Not that you should be adding anything to segments, but a nice trick is to
>hold shift+middle button in JOSM, which will bring up a list of objects near
>the cursor. Switch to CTRL and you can select a particular object, then let
>go and it's selected.
>
>And no, splitting ways is an oft-requested but not-yet-implemented feature.
>
>Regards,
>Tom