[OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

[Peter Childs]

2009/8/22 Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de>:
> Peter Childs wrote:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Escalator
>>
>> I'm trying to work out how to tag Escalators I'm not sure the current
>> tagging it clear, or even partially useful.
>
> I wouldn't call this "current tagging". That page is a proposal in
> "draft" state, i.e. its not even in the "please look at my proposal, try
> it and comment" state (aka "RFC"). So if we find something better, we
> can just use that instead.
>
>> There seams to be no clear way to tag "Moving Walkways" or Travelators
>> these are Esclators without steps, so the current tagging steps with
>> an extra tag just does not work, spouse you could tag a path, but that
>> just makes it worse.
>
> I believe the best way to solve this is to create a new top-level (that
> is, highway) value for all variants of conveyor transport. So, for
> example, we could do:
>
> highway = conveyor
> conveyor = escalator / travelator
> incline = up / down / <percentage> (nothing for horizontal travelators)
>
> If required also something like:
> conveyor:direction = forward (default) / backward / on_demand
>
> Using a highway value is justified because applications that don't know
> about this kind of feature would use it wrong anyway (e.g. route in the
> wrong direction).
>
> Would that solution work?
>
> Tobias Knerr
>

Sounds good to me I was not trying to get discussion and work out what
was right and could only find something flaky on the wiki....

Peter