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Explicit permission to use

On 13th January 2022, a Freedom-of-Information request with the Department of Public Works & Highways' Road & Bridges Inventory (RBI) dataset was granted explicit permission for use with OpenStreetMap.

For posterity, the comms archive with DPWH is available from the public repo.

What potential value does it add to OSM?

• improve highway networks and add/review 8,546 bridges, including adding load limit restrictions (i.e. OSM's max_weight) for the highway.
• add/supplement highway names. dataset includes highway name (i.e. value for nat_name, or name tags, if missing)
• improved search results. bridges are local landmarks, and serve as practical proxies for (unmapped) settlements or waterways in the vicinity of the bridge.
• add route number (i.e. OSM's ref, if missing) for the highway.
• address QA issues, in the course of editing OSM.