[Tagging] Inclined elevators

Guillaume Chauvat guillaume at chauvat.eu
Thu Dec 3 15:12:25 UTC 2020


The one I am talking about is really an elevator. It's the one on the left in the picture here: http://nyttiflempan.sh.se/flemingsberg/2015-04-21/S%C3%B6dert%C3%B6rns-rulltrappa-en-huvudv%C3%A4rk-f%C3%B6r-kommunen-12389.html

Guillaume

On 3 December 2020 15:58:03 CET, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>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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