[Tagging] Mapping cave tunnels passable by human

Janko Mihelić janjko at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 09:08:02 UTC 2014


Well first, tunnel=yes is obviously wrong. We need to replace this with
cave=yes. Other than that, I have no problems with this. If a cave has two
cave entrances, then information that they are connected by footpaths is
valuable information.

Janko


2014-08-14 7:29 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:

> I added to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cave#Tagging_in_OSM how
> these may be mapped ("tunnels that are available for humans but closed for
> typical
> tourists may be mapped as highway=path with tunnel=yes and access=private,
> and routes available for tourists as highway=footway (highway=steps) with
> tunnel=yes").
>
> I think that it is an obvious idea, but wiki claimed that "At the moment
> there just a
> tag to map the entrance to a cave." despite fact that existing tags fit
> well.
>
> I am pretty sure that it is a good idea, but maybe there is some superior
> scheme or
> I missed something.
>
> Example of cave tagged this way is available at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.17416&mlon=19.80670#map=18/50.17416/19.80670
>
> I wonder about adding something that would denote that way is part of
> cave,
> maybe natural=cave_tunnel?
>
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