[OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 23:35:48 BST 2009


On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tobias Knerr<osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
>
> Nobody suggested "multiple highway tags". The highway tag currently only
> contains features that are relevant for routing pedestrians or vehicles,
> and I prefer it to stay like that. Things like pipelines or goods
> conveyors don't belong into this category.

+1

> What's the disadvantage of using highway=conveyor and man_made=conveyor
> for human vs goods conveyors? If there isn't any, then how can a reason
> not be "good enough" to do it?

Sounds good to me. Not sure what John means - I think this is less
ambiguous than having the same tag (highway=conveyor) mean two
different things.




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