[OSM-newbies] Tagging a Funicular

[Cartinus]

On Friday 17 April 2009 02:56:37 Blumpsy wrote:
> I've had the opportunity to do some mapping in Viseu, Portugal over the
> Easter break. The city council has built a funicular
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular), which will be inaugurated
> shortly.
>
> Permalink:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.66205&lon=-7.91215&zoom=17&layers=B000
>FTF

You can use this tag:
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Funicular_railway>

Or you can use the "traction=funicular" part of:
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Rack_railway>

Or you could use:
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Incline_railway>
(But I don't like tags with unnecessary "namespace" parts.)


It doesn't matter that these tags never got into the Map Features page. You 
can use any tag you want.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus