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Just doing landuse around Llangollen Canal - this is an area where lots of people go and it is good to map the type of landuse that they will be entering…. Found that canal bridges are either numbered as bridge_ref OR bridge:ref - I found that the latter is preferred (even though that are more of the former…) bridge=*#The_building_number
Discussion
Comment from SK53 on 25 October 2017 at 21:52
Don’t believe the wiki: bridge_ref is the standard used in the UK.
Comment from NorthIsland on 26 October 2017 at 06:46
Thanks for that. FYI, I found, using taginfo, 5382 of bridge_ref but only 1612 of bridge:ref Even Though Wiki prefers the latter… bridge=*#The_building_number **I took on the western end of the Llangollen Canal as a bit of a challenge but did look at quite a few other UK canals for guidance on mapping. **I have now done Changeset: 53247341 to that area. **Please do let me know if you have any further comments on my work - as we can’t all be right all the time!
Comment from highflyer74 on 27 October 2017 at 12:55
How did “bridge:ref” get into the wiki…? The article seems to be well established.
I have never tagged a bridge reference, and have no idea about the proper usage of the tag, but coming across your blog entry I found it interesting that both keys seem to be popular and only one of them has a wiki article.
@SK53 do you know what caused this discrepancy?