2009/8/22 Tobias Knerr <o...@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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk