[OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

[John Smith]

--- On Mon, 24/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Because they are both man made it's ambiguous, it's a very bad idea to use tags that can be confused if the descriptions aren't read, or aren't read properly. Someone somewhere will use the wrong tags, and most likely it won't be just some one and then you'll end up with another endless pointless debate over this.