[OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

[John F. Eldredge]

Well, the culvert is used where the waterway passes under the roadway.  Also, many culverts are located where there is running water only during, or shortly after, a rainstorm, so the ditch or low spot they are intended to drain may well not be marked on the map.  As far as I know, we aren't trying to make a full topographical map, so culverts are likely to be mapped as landmarks for someone using the road or path.

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor
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Date  :Thu Aug 26 15:30:11 America/Chicago 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl <mailto:cartinus at xs4all.nl> > wrote:
 Sometime last year on talk or tagging there was discussion about culverts.
 IIRC you opposed special tagging for them then too. 


I opposed because I though that it was a technical term only known by civil engineers. But go ahead with culvert and sewers, we will see how many applications will use them.
   
Despite it being hidden so far, there are already 597
 culvert=yes tags in the database.



Not bad for a hidden tag. The question is to know how many are on the waterway and not on the road and how many different contributors used it. 
 
Pieren
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