On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 20:34, David Earl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/12/2011 04:31, Josh Doe wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 2011/12/1 Martijn van Exel<[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>> Is there a specific tag for a wheelchair ramp that is not part of a >>>>>> steps feature? >>>> >>>> I agree with Martin and others, it is a separate feature, but I do >>>> think that it's also a distinct feature type and thus warrants its own >>>> highway type, therefore I am going to go ahead and use >>>> highway=access_ramp as David proposed. >>> >>> >>> >>> I agree that it might be desirable in some contexts (mainly >>> statistics) to be able to identify these ramps distinctly, but for >>> most contexts including routing it is the same as a footway. If you >>> use a dedicated, low-use highway-tag you will risk to not get this >>> feature evaluated at all (what is not desired here, IMHO). I suggest >>> to use a subtag/attribute instead. >> >> >> +1. I don't see the value in adding a new highway value. How do you >> differentiate a ramp intended for the disabled and one intended for >> all travelers? Thus I don't see it is substantially different than >> highway=path. I'd favor highway=path + wheelchair=yes, and if you'd >> like throw on access_ramp=yes as well which can give you special >> rendering and stats if you'd like. > > > I really don't care what the tagging is, so long as > (a) there is a reasonable consensus > (b) it represents the distinctive features of the object, and > (c) it is documented > (d) it doesn't keep changing > > The trouble with asking is that you get as many suggestions back as there > are people listening, and then it goes quiet and you're no further forward.
I manage to keep quite sometimes... +1 is a great feature which sadly only works on wikis. > highway=access_ramp was the only remotely documented feature, even then as a > proposal, I don't tag tunnels as highway=footway_tunnel, let me suggest ramp:wheelchair=yes a well used tag. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ramp _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
