[Talk-GB] Entrances with staircases

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Sat Feb 20 17:53:20 UTC 2021


On Sat, 2021-02-20 at 17:28 +0000, Michal Vinarek wrote:
> Hello all,
> how would you map entrances with staircases like these? 
> https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=55.876434~-4.293361&lvl=17&dir=127.546&style=x&v=2&sV=1
> I'd assume entrance=staircase is used rather to denote an entrance 
> leading to an internal staircase 
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:entrance%3Dstaircase), and 
> other than that there does not seem to be a tag that I could apply 
> straight to the node to say that this entrance is only accessible via
> staircase.
> Would it, in this case, make sense to map each of the staircases as a
> line (highway=stairs) from the road to the entrance node itself? This
> approach seems fairly messy with a lot of entrances close to each
> other 
> though, so I am wondering what the best way to map these would be and
> if 
> someone has found a more suitable approach?

Hi
I would probably map the steps as highway=steps, with a stepcount,
leading to the building with and entrance node.

Calling them stairs is a little confusing, stairs are found inside a
building, outside they are steps.

HTH Phil



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