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Adding Bridges

  1. Select the existing road

    1. locate where the bridge should be

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    2. click on the existing road that will be split to the create the bridge

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    3. right-click on the first node and click the scissor icon to split the road. Perform the same process with the second node. <info> The grey node confirms you have split the road

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  1. Tag the Bridge Section

    1. Select the newly created road section (the segment between the two nodes). The quickest approach is to use Add a bridge, in the Issues pane in the Edit Feature panel (on the left of the OSM ID interface).

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      Using Add a bridge will add two tags: bridge=yes layer=1

    2. QA your newly added bridge. Bridge segments in OSM will have a black border running parrell with the road you’ve added. You use this to visually confirm you’ve added the bridge to the correct road segment

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      Correctly added bridge

  2. Save your edit. Add a template

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