How do I tag Elevated Highways and Roads?

alt text How do I tag elevated highways and roads, ie. a road, or roads, that are constructed above a road at ground level and that follow exactly the same path as the ground-level road?

I have attached an image taken in Guangzhou, China, where the elevated road shown circles the entire city as the city's inner ring road.

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asked 10 Apr '11, 01:24

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Tag as bridge=viaduct there are over 5000 examples on taginfo, and probably at least as many which are just tagged bridge=yes.

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answered 10 Apr '11, 15:25

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Yes! I'd never heard the term "viaduct" before, but I think that's it. I've deleted my answer. Also, I've checked, and mapnik (recently) added support for rendering bridge=viaduct (the same as bridge=yes). See http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3311 for details and examples.

(10 Apr '11, 17:28) JasonWoof

1	bridge=yes + layer=1,2,3... I'm not sure if layer can go up to 5 and beyond. If 5 is the maximum value it can be trouble with highways that go with more than 5 (10?) layers of bridges. permanent link answered 11 Apr '11, 13:40 ivanatora 2.7k●35●55●68 accept rate: 7%

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I've never mapped such roadways, however I did find a thread on the OSM-talk mailing list: Elevated highways

I would map the elevated portion as a separate way, and give it the tag layer=1 (or for certain sections higher, depending on how many other highways are beneath it). I'm not sure if it should be tagged as a bridge, however I would tend to say it should not. Hopefully others with experience in this can chime in.

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answered 10 Apr '11, 03:24

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