[OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

[edodd at billiau.net]

> On 27 August 2010 10:04, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The way I understand it, a culvert is just a tiny pseudo-bridge,
>> physically
>> equivalent to a tunnel under an embankment. Culverts don't show up in
>> the US
>> National Bridge Inventory, which is a database of bridges on public
>> roads.
>> They normally carry water under roads, but may also carry a private farm
>> access road under a highway that splits a farmer's land.
>
> There was discussion about this sort of thing on the Australian list
> some time back, although from memory it was more about what
> constitutes a bridge, I can't fully remember the outcome, but imho
> anything able to allow something as big as farm machinery or a person
> to go under a road would be a tunnel not a culvert.
>

to complicate matters, a culvert may cut through a road in rural
australia, making a small ford