wow, that's a good question. Wikipedia classifies a Segway device as a personal_transporter and that would seem to be a good place to start. But how to avoid confusion with wheelchairs and the like?
I like gyropode even more. The English Wikipedia doesn't contain that term as yet but the French section does. It's a better term IMO because it specifically relates to the self-balancing aspect of the transporter device. -1 Hoverboard. Although there are devices called "hoverboards" that resemble the Segway (which I was unaware of until I looked just now), I tend to think more of an airborne transporter, like a hovercraft when I hear that term. Cheers, Dave On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Dalibor Jelínek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > the center of my beautiful city of Prague has been marked in a large scale > recently by new road signs stating > > that use of Segway PT and similar devices is prohibited there. (Search > google - images for “zákaz segway”.) > > I guess that some would like to map these. > > The discussion is here https://wiki.openstreetmap. > org/wiki/Talk:Key:access#Segways > > > > The obvious access key to use for me would be {{Tag|segway}}, but there is > an objection > > that we should not use trademark. > > Is there a generic (but usable for OSM) name for Segway-like family of > devices used in English? > > Gyropode? > > Hoverboard? > > > > Thanks, > > Dalibor (chrabros) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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