Bridges
Bridges that are important for orientation and are regularly used in communication about, for example, road closures - can be added to the map. This can be done as Places and also via the street name.
Place
A Bridge is a place in the category Transport.
As a standard, rivers and canals are drawn continuously, without stopping and starting before and after a crossing road. This gives the best visual result in the app.
A bridge place is optional. It is not necessary to create a bridge place for roads that cross rivers and canals. Use a Bridge place where multiple roads use one bridge to cross a river of canal. Without the Bridge place the app will show water between the roads, with the bridge it also looks like one bridge.
But sometimes a bridge isn't displayed in the app and water is still showing under the Bridge place area.
Street name
The name of a Bridge can be put in the street name of the road segment. The bridge name will then be visible and audible in the app.
- Prefer not to split segments just before an exit to create a separate bridgesegment.
- When the bridge name differs from the street name, no house numbers can be linked.
- No need for a separate bridgeplace if the the bridge itself doesn't need to be visable in the app.