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  • Rare photo, as it shows the temporary Kossuth Bridge, it was built in 1946, demolished in 1960. It’s the second, flat bridge on the photo with small pillars.

    Color photo of the bridge from 1957:

    Nowadays there is no bridge in place of this bridge, M2 underground crosses the Danube about there below.

    During WW2 retreating Nazi forces blew up all bridges of Budapest in 1945, it was quicker to build a new temporary bridge than reconstructing one of the old ones.

    The first rebuilt bridge was ready in late 1946, Liberty Bridge is a cantilever bridge, half of the structure survived, and it was still stable.

    The last rebuilt bridge was Elisabeth Bridge finished in 1964. Actually this photo was taken next to it, the statue in the foreground is of Saint Gerard, overlooking Elisabeth Bridge. At the time of the photo one of the towers of the bridge was was still standing on the other side of the Danube, This photo is from 1953:








  • OSM “categories” are not mapped one to one with CoMaps categories.

    office=notary is interpreted as a synonym of office=lawyer. You can see this replacement in this file:

    https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main/data/replaced_tags.txt#L96

    So all notary offices are displayed as lawyer’s offices. There are 50k lawyer’s offices in OSM, while only 10k notaries, maybe it would be good time to separate them, maybe there were fewer when support for these tags was added. Taginfo comparison

    Osmand uses a totally different map generation workflow, so it’s expected that you see different things there. Osmand tries to stay close to the upstream OSM tagging shenanigans, while CoMaps aims to be a more user friendly app, you can see it here again.

    but can’t select the category to see all PoIs from this category on map.

    If you search for the name of a subcategory CoMaps will show that in the search result. If you tap on that it will highlight elements with that subcategory. So search for “archaeological site”