[OSM-talk] Should Bridges be independent of their ways?

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Camp three: multiple ways representing paths of travel, grouped with a
>> "bridge" relation to indicate they share a common bridge. This could
>> probably be seen as a compromise, and is (I think) a good interim
>> solution, if not a very-long-term solution.
>>
>
> I can suggest to add bridge's physical form to this. Otherwise yeah,
> why not. It would also help to indicate where bridge actually starts
> and ends to help routing software logic.

By the way, for those interested, the relation we are suggesting is
essentially already documented here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Bridges_and_Tunnels