Hi, John Smith wrote: >> I would recommend a relation to unify "several bridges" in one (which >> gets also the name). Not really more simple to map, but resulting more >> accurate and probably could also render nicer. > > That seems like such a nasty way to do it, this is why I've suggested > allowing us to tag lanes, not just ways so we don't need to do this > sort of hacks to tag the physical world.
Indeed. A much better way would be tagging the bridge as a man-made construct of its own (i.e. in most cases draw an area for the bridge surface), and then use a relation to say which ways lead over (and possibly which lead under) the bridge. See the ideas under http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Bridges_and_Tunnels Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
