[OSM-newbies] Evalated Walkways

[Trevor Hook]

I have decided the best description for this structure is a ramp, so I have
tagged it as follows.

highway=footway
layer=1
surface=wood
ramp=yes
ramp:wheelchair=yes
ramp:elevated=yes

The last tag is a new one I have just created, I have added a comment to the
talk page of key:ramp to detail what I have done and why.





On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
>
>> The wiki is not the finite answer. If it's lacking an item, add it, be
>>
>
> only if needed, and on the Newbies list, the answer should be Ask, not Add,
> as in this case.
>
>
>> it aerial_path or Catwalk etc.
>>
>
> would likely be overly detailed  if there's anything generally right
>
>  so viaduct could be used.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaduct
>>
>
> *Good point, a foot  viaduct is what it is.*
>
> But again you quote Wikipedia to choose OSM tags. OSM is not whole language
> but a smaller tagging vocabulary for a database.
>
> In OSM schema, it turns out Viaduct was rejected as a *tag* and accepted
> as a *value*.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/*Proposed*_features/*Viaduct*
>
>> *Status: Obsoleted<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_features_%22Obsoleted%22>(
>> inactive <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Inactive_features>)
>> *
>> *This proposal has been obsoleted by the approved "Bridge<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Bridge>"
>> proposal.*
>>
>
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/*Bridge*
>
>> There is a single "bridge=<type>" tag:
>> *bridge*=yes
>> *bridge*=aqueduct
>> *bridge*=viaduct
>> *bridge*=swing
>> *bridge*=...
>>
>  so i suggest
> *
> highway=footway, bridge=viaduct,*
>
> and at least in the WDW case where we will be adding footway and service
> ways beneath,
> *     layer=1
> *although* *the squirrels and hedgehogs won't have layer=0 paths to
> conflict in the treetop case*, *there might be a ground level nature trail
> as well.
> *
> * (Why not tag with best word from wikipedia even if not otherwise used in
> OSM? While we don't tag for one render,  we also don't tag to make the
> renderes' job impossible either; a custom tag usevid nowhere else will NEVER
> render unless the author provides patches to each renderer, and other
> database uses won't know what to make of it either.)
>
>
> --
> Bill
> n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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