• Spanskrit was designed as a compact, symbolic language to encode visual bridge structures for use in GIS and 3D rendering ecosystems. It enables geospatial features, such as polylines representing bridges, to be annotated with rich visual semantics that drive real-time or precomputed visualization pipelines - with elements that are "close enough" to make geo-specific features recognizable without the need for hand-modelling.

• Spanskrit.org is a volunteer organization, designed to build bridges between industry players and foster collaborative effort on the review, refinement, and expansion of the Spanskrit specification that benefit the wider GIS community. 

While GIS systems have well-established attribute models for bridge classification (e.g., type, number of spans), there exists no standard symbolic syntax to visually describe a bridge's *form* or *structure* in a lightweight, procedurally-generable way. Spanskrit fills this gap by providing a linearly parseable DSL that:

• Requires no detailed 3D geometry

• Is easy to embed in geodatabase attributes

• Encodes compositional structure (arches, pylons, trusses, cables, stays, etc.)

• Allows plausible bridge modeling in low-latency environments (e.g., CesiumJS, Unity, Celerity, Unreal, etc.)

• Provides a starting point for standardizing visual semantics of bridges across GIS datasets