Thanks. I did not know that word. On the German Wikipedia page for "Düker" they also mention this: "Ein Düker zur Überwindung eines Tales, wie sie schon Römer <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6misches_Reich> aus Blei <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blei>- und Tonrohren bauten, wird eher *Siphon* genannt."
I would prefer to make it a type of tunnel, not a special type of culvert, but I would not insist On 8 June 2017 at 16:54, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfg...@lyxys.ka.sub.org> wrote: > Hi, > > * Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> [170608 15:40]: > > I am looking into how to tag a frequent feature in my area, i.e. a siphon > > underpass, known in Italian as "botte a sifone" or "botte sifone" and in > > French as "pont siphon". This is a non.connecting waterway crossing where > > the lower waterway passes through a U-shaped siphon. The bottom part of > the > > U is a tunnel that is lower as the normal level of the waterway. > > [..] > > I could not find any tagging schemes for this in OSM, but I may have > missed > > them in ignorance of the proper technical terms. > > in German this is called a "Düker". Unfortunately there does not seem to > be a special term for this in English; all translations that I could > find used "culvert". I would tag it as tunnel=culvert and suggest to use > a subtag to specify that it is a special type of culvert, like > culvert=syphon or similar. > > Wolfgang > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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