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<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>in my endeavour to improve the mapping and tagging along
waterways, I noticed that there is no approved or documented tag
for ladders along shorelines. There is ladder=yes
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ladder">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ladder</a>), but it seems to
be meant for hiking paths and is only rendered on lines. I mapped
a few ladder=yes along river shores on OSMAnd, only to discover
that I need to add the quay wall to have them rendered which is a
lot of extra effort, and cannot be done casually using OSMAnd. <br>
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<p>After talking to someone who canoes, they tell me that many of
the ones I had mapped along the retaining wall in the town where I
live are actually for emergencies, when people fall into the
river. They're not meant to be used by swimmers, i.e. they're not
actually accessible from the shore with a gate in the fence. Then
I'm thinking, should it be <font face="Courier New, Courier,
monospace">emergency=ladder</font>? But what if one isn't sure
if they are for boating people or only for emergency situations?
So I'm now mapping them as <font face="Courier New, Courier,
monospace">man_made=ladder</font> (and add ladder=yes, so they
get rendered), as other people have done in harbour or river
situations before me, but only very infrequently.</p>
<p>30 are mapped as ladder for scuba diving
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/scuba_diving%3Aentry%3Aladder#overview">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/scuba_diving%3Aentry%3Aladder#overview</a>),
but the average person might not know, if there is no signage. I
think a simpler way would be to just use <font face="Courier New,
Courier, monospace">man_made=ladder</font> and add the sport or
the emergency tag to the best of ones knowledge.</p>
<p>Anne<br>
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