[Tagging] Inclined elevators

[Guillaume Chauvat]

Sorry for spamming.

I also think it's fine if the Montmarte funicular is tagged as a 
funicular. But I'm asking because of things that are clearly elevators, 
like this one: 
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-tekniska-hgskolan-metro-station-stermalm-district-stockholm-sweden-41948022.html 
. It goes on a path parallel to the escalators, not vertically (I have 
been inside). To me it looks very wrong to call this a funicular. But 
maybe others disagree...

Guillaume

On 2020-12-05 00:07, Clay Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 5:00 PM Joseph Eisenberg 
> <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The wiki page text says that a railway=funicular is "A funicular,
>     also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable
>     railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles
>     on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and
>     descending vehicles counterbalancing each other.”
>
>     However, the description in the infobox (which is much more
>     commonly seen in places like taginfo and iD) is only “Cable driven
>     inclined railway” - and this could include many types of "inclined
>     elevators” which mostly run on rails too. So mappers might be
>     using railway=funicular for inclined elevators already.
>
>
> Indeed they are. For example, here's the Montmartre Funicular in 
> Paris, which was historically a true funicular but is now technically 
> a pair of inclined elevators: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29403578
>
> The distinction between a funicular and an inclined elevator is to me 
> a technical one. Many inclined elevators, like the previous example, 
> are named as funiculars, and passengers may not even notice that they 
> are on one or the other - for all they know, they're just on a vehicle 
> going up and down steeply sloped rails.
>
> I'm in favor of tagging inclined elevators as funiculars whenever they 
> may resemble one. Perhaps an additional tag like 
> railway:funicular=inclined_elevator could be invented for those 
> interested in the technical details on how the 
> steep-slope-railway-thing works.
>
> -Clay
>
>
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