<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I've looked into these.<div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-top:0px">Most inclined elevators seem to also operate with cables, with the difference being that in a funicular there are 2 cars attached to 1 cable, so one ascends while the other descends, but in an inclined elevator each car (or there might only be 1 car) is attached to a counterweight or a winch.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">Unfortunately it looks like most uses of the tag highway=elevator on a way are actually areas (closed ways):<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10S8" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10S8</a> - 3080 highway=elevator ways are closed. A review of a few of these suggests they are mostly 4 node rectangular ways which represent the area of a verticle elevator. About half are tagged <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.899999618530273px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;border-top-left-radius:6px;border-top-right-radius:6px;border-bottom-right-radius:6px;border-bottom-left-radius:6px">indoor=room</code> - <a rel="nofollow" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10Se" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10Se</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box">vs<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10S9" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration:none">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10S9</a> - 190 ways which are not closed. These look to be inclined elevators, though in some cases it’s not possible to tell if they might actually be a funicular instead.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">While railway=funicular is 10 times as common, this might or might not represent the actual relative frequency of these features in the real world, I don’t know.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">The wiki page text says that a railway=funicular is "A funicular, also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px">However, the description in the infobox (which is much more commonly seen in places like taginfo and iD) is only “Cable driven inclined railway” - and this could include many types of "inclined elevators” which mostly run on rails too. So mappers might be using railway=funicular for inclined elevators already.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px">-- Joseph Eisenberg</p></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:55 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 08:33, Guillaume Chauvat <<a href="mailto:guillaume@chauvat.eu" target="_blank">guillaume@chauvat.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Yes, but this is a node, not a way. Inclined elevators require a way and those are not displayed properly.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, didn't get what you were getting at!</div><div><br></div><div>Graeme</div><br></div></div>
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