[Tagging] Inclined elevators

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Thu Dec 3 14:58:03 UTC 2020


This one looks to me like a small funicular railway.

But OSM Wiki includes "the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other"
as one of important characteristic.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway=funicular?uselang=en


Dec 3, 2020, 14:53 by winfixit at gmail.com:

> I couldn't resist looking them up.
>
> This is a very long one and there is even an operator in it: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh0NxK6sslM
>
> Most are the length of the escalators they are adjacent to.
>
> Polyglot
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Guillaume Chauvat <> guillaume at chauvat.eu> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My apologies if this has already been discussed several times or if it's not the place to ask.
>>
>> I was mapping a public inclined elevator in a dedicated building (it only contains the elevator and three parallel escalators). This is really a standard elevator running parallel to the escalators, not a funicular. Those elevators are very common here in Sweden, although most often inside metro stations.
>>
>> What is the best way of mapping it? I used a way tagged with highway=elevator as the wiki recommends, but this does not seem supported by any tool (the default editor, the map on >> openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org>>> , or osmand).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Guillaume
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