I have decided the best description for this structure is a ramp, so I have tagged it as follows.
highway=footway layer=1 surface=wood ramp=yes ramp:wheelchair=yes ramp:elevated=yes The last tag is a new one I have just created, I have added a comment to the talk page of key:ramp to detail what I have done and why. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The wiki is not the finite answer. If it's lacking an item, add it, be >> > > only if needed, and on the Newbies list, the answer should be Ask, not Add, > as in this case. > > >> it aerial_path or Catwalk etc. >> > > would likely be overly detailed if there's anything generally right > > so viaduct could be used. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaduct >> > > *Good point, a foot viaduct is what it is.* > > But again you quote Wikipedia to choose OSM tags. OSM is not whole language > but a smaller tagging vocabulary for a database. > > In OSM schema, it turns out Viaduct was rejected as a *tag* and accepted > as a *value*. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/*Proposed*_features/*Viaduct* > >> *Status: >> Obsoleted<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_features_%22Obsoleted%22>( >> inactive <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Inactive_features>) >> * >> *This proposal has been obsoleted by the approved >> "Bridge<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Bridge>" >> proposal.* >> > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/*Bridge* > >> There is a single "bridge=<type>" tag: >> *bridge*=yes >> *bridge*=aqueduct >> *bridge*=viaduct >> *bridge*=swing >> *bridge*=... >> > so i suggest > * > highway=footway, bridge=viaduct,* > > and at least in the WDW case where we will be adding footway and service > ways beneath, > * layer=1 > *although* *the squirrels and hedgehogs won't have layer=0 paths to > conflict in the treetop case*, *there might be a ground level nature trail > as well. > * > * (Why not tag with best word from wikipedia even if not otherwise used in > OSM? While we don't tag for one render, we also don't tag to make the > renderes' job impossible either; a custom tag usevid nowhere else will NEVER > render unless the author provides patches to each renderer, and other > database uses won't know what to make of it either.) > > > -- > Bill > [email protected] [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > >
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