[OSM-talk] Bridge Names

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> > For example, I could imagine creating a way for the bridge only, and
>> > another way for the road that crosses it, and then a relation saying
>> > "this road uses that bridge". This would give us the additional
>> > advantage of being able to model multiple ways going over the same
>> > bridge.
>> 
>> Is this not just causing ways to become what segments were supposed to once do?
>
> Not in my opinion, no.

I would be very much for that approach.

I would like to have nodes and ways only describe the geometry of
objects.  IMO nodes should have only 2 properties (lat & lon) and
maybe altitude.  Ways should only reference nodes.  All metadata
should be capured in relations.

Then one would create a way for each stretch of road (, path,
whatever) and then create a bridge object that references the ways
forming the bridge and a highway object referencing all the ways that
make up that highway and so on.

I consider this much cleaner than having tags at all levels in the
object hirarchy.  And it makes it much easier for different objects to
share the same nodes/ways.  It would be very easy for a post box, a
phone booth and the town centre to share the same node without tagging
conficts.

Matthias