On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/14/2012 6:37 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone ever looked into using the National Bridge Inventory >> (NBI)[1] for adding missing bridges to OSM in the US? I'm pretty sure >> TIGER does not have (most) bridges and I'm very sure the community has >> not added all the 600k bridges that are in the NBI. >> There should be sufficient information in the NBI to match to existing >> OSM features: the name of road on and under the bridge and location >> (as a point) are recorded. > > > I think it would be very useful as a Keepright-style site that automatically > checks for a bridge there but also allows saying the NBI data is bogus. > (Perhaps we could then send any such information to the NBI?) Anything more > automated than that would really not work due to location differences, name > differences, and other issues.
+1 regarding Keepright. I've thought about doing something with NBI before, but it got pushed down the (long) queue. -Josh _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us