[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Small electric vehicles - keys updated

[Jan Michel]

Hi Joseph,

On 23.12.19 01:00, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
> small_electric_vehicle for segways and electric kick scooters seems 
> confusing to me: I would imagine this including electric golf carts 
> (already tagged golf_cart=yes/designated/no) and perhaps other things.
The term is borrowed from European law. If there are better alternatives
we haven't found them yet.

> It’s also a bit odd that electric pedal-assist bicycles with limited top 
> speed are to be tagged electric_bicycle= but faster e-bikes would be 
> tagged “speed_pedelec=“ - shouldn’t it be “high_speed_electric_bicycle=“ 
> or similar?
As Volker already said, both "electric bicycle" and "speed pedelec" are 
quite well-know terms in several languages in Europe.
I very much favor this over a newly made up key.


> 
> Joseph
> 
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 11:34 PM Jan Michel 
> <jan at mueschelsoft.de 
> <mailto:jan at mueschelsoft.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Taking the various comments and suggestions into account,
>     I revised some of the tags proposed and also included electric mopeds
>     in the proposal.
> 
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ElectricBicyclesAndScooters
> 
> 
> 
>     The current set of tags is:
> 
>     * electric_bicycle - bicycles with motor assistance
>     * speed_pedelec - fast electric bicycles, similar to mopeds
>     * kick_scooter - the 'childrens style' scooter
>     * small_electric_vehicle - electric scooters (similar to kick
>     scooters),
>     Segway etc. These refer to a class of vehicles in European (French,
>     German) law
>     * moped:electric - slow electric motorcycles (EU: up to 25 km/h
>     typically)
>     * mofa:electric -medium fast electric motorcycles  (EU: up to 45 km/h
>     typically)
> 
>     I hope that this set of tags is able to cope with most existing and
>     planned regulations and is free of ambiguities.
>     Please let me know your opinion and further suggestions!
> 
>     Jan
> 
> 
>     On 10.11.19 18:05, Jan Michel wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      > up to now we don't have documented tags for small electric
>     vehicles like
>      > bicycles and scooters. On the other hand, special access rules and
>      > amenities become more and more common.
>      >
>      > These new keys are not only necessary for access tags, but also
>     intended
>      > for use with any other kind of amenity like parking, shops, service,
>      > charging...
>      >
>      > I wrote a proposal [1] to define common keywords for these vehicles.
>      > Please let me know your opinion and further suggestions!
>      >
>      >
>      > Jan
>      >
>      >
>      > [1]
>      >
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ElectricBicyclesAndScooters
> 
>      >
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