How should I tag a named bridge that carries a (differently) named road? For example, in Newcastle there is a bridge across the Tyne called "Swing Bridge" which carries a tertiary road called "Bridge Street". The current tagging is just:
which works, but doesn't record the name of the street. The name of the bridge is useful, as that is how locals would give you directions and is probably what should be rendered on the map, but the street name is also potentially useful - especially when searching. Do we have any established technique for recording both names? I'm guessing a similar problem exists for other named bridges and there may be worse case (e.g. I could imagine a named bridge that carrys several different named ways) asked 25 Aug '11, 15:25 GrahamS |
Bridges can be mapped as areas tagged with the widely-supported If the bridge is not (yet) mapped as a separate object, the (Best practices have evolved a lot in the decade since this question was asked and there are now well-established solutions. This answer was rewritten in 2021 to reflect these changes.) answered 25 Aug '11, 18:09 Tordanik |
The newer solution is "man_made=bridge" and "name=*". This can be nicely visualised in Carto map. answered 01 Jan '21, 16:10 strongwillow 1
You're right, I've updated the accepted answer accordingly as it was outdated. Upvoted! :)
(01 Jan '21, 17:40)
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You also have; answered 25 Aug '11, 23:51 Sundance |
you can create a relation for the bridge, look there: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Bridges_and_Tunnels answered 25 Aug '11, 15:53 moszkva ter |
bridge_name seems to be used quite a bit. answered 25 Aug '11, 15:43 SomeoneElse ♦ |