Think about emergency doors, emergency steps and emergency paths leading to them all along motorways. Sounds a bit exhaustive to create a new emergency value for each one. An access restriction sounds more reasonable.
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 2:33 PM Anne-Karoline Distel <annekadis...@web.de> wrote: > > Hello all, > > in my endeavour to improve the mapping and tagging along waterways, I noticed > that there is no approved or documented tag for ladders along shorelines. > There is ladder=yes (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ladder), but it > seems to be meant for hiking paths and is only rendered on lines. I mapped a > few ladder=yes along river shores on OSMAnd, only to discover that I need to > add the quay wall to have them rendered which is a lot of extra effort, and > cannot be done casually using OSMAnd. > > After talking to someone who canoes, they tell me that many of the ones I had > mapped along the retaining wall in the town where I live are actually for > emergencies, when people fall into the river. They're not meant to be used by > swimmers, i.e. they're not actually accessible from the shore with a gate in > the fence. Then I'm thinking, should it be emergency=ladder? But what if one > isn't sure if they are for boating people or only for emergency situations? > So I'm now mapping them as man_made=ladder (and add ladder=yes, so they get > rendered), as other people have done in harbour or river situations before > me, but only very infrequently. > > 30 are mapped as ladder for scuba diving > (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/scuba_diving%3Aentry%3Aladder#overview), > but the average person might not know, if there is no signage. I think a > simpler way would be to just use man_made=ladder and add the sport or the > emergency tag to the best of ones knowledge. > > Anne > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
