Following a discussion on osm-carto [1], I am looking for a suitable tagging of taxi services that
are not passenger cars.
Examples are motorcycle taxis and rickshaws.
While the original approval for amenity=taxi (32k) [2] does not specify the vehicle type, some
additions were introduced in 2013 [3], apparently from the Philippines community [4], to add the
following tags:
+ motorcar=yes|no (usage 289, mostly Philippines)
+ motorcycle=yes|no (usage 290, mostly Philippines)
The problem I see here that this method hijacks access-tags, while the intention is to specify the
type of the taxi. The next best candidates for the type are also already occupied with access tagging:
taxi=yes|no (18k)
vehicle=* (203k)
Thus I propose to discourage the use of those access tags, and to use a new subtag for the type of
the taxi with an unambiguous key, e.g.:
taxi_type = car|motorcycle|rickshaw, etc,
while car is considered the implicit default.
tom
[1] https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3621
[2] archived Approved features/Tag:amenity=taxi :
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?oldid=62088
[3]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dtaxi&diff=next&oldid=763230
[4]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/Mapping_conventions#Commuter_Transportation_.2F_Auto_Shops_.26_Services
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