[OSM-newbies] Tagging a Funicular

[Claudius]

Am 17.04.2009 02:56, Blumpsy:
> Dear list,
>
> 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=B000FTF
>
> (..)
> a) Would railway=funicular require a proper feature request with voting
> and all, or could we simply sneak it onto the Map_Features page?

You should indeed use a new key.

There's a similar thing in Prague, but it's not running on a street:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.08229&lon=14.39987&zoom=17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petřín_funicular

> b) The street where the funicular runs is rather narrow. Because the
> car-cable attachment is through a narrow slot in the pavement, the
> funicular does not actually form a physical separation between the two
> sides of the road

The way you describe it it's the very same as the trams running on 
tracks inside the roadtrack and thus you should tag the way both as 
highway and railway. Again see Prague as an example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.082&lon=14.4242&zoom=14
..as well as Leipzig:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.3335&lon=12.3804&zoom=13

Claudius