On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 5:00 PM Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> The wiki page text says that a railway=funicular is "A funicular, also > known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a > cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and > down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing > each other.” > > However, the description in the infobox (which is much more commonly seen > in places like taginfo and iD) is only “Cable driven inclined railway” - > and this could include many types of "inclined elevators” which mostly run > on rails too. So mappers might be using railway=funicular for inclined > elevators already. > Indeed they are. For example, here's the Montmartre Funicular in Paris, which was historically a true funicular but is now technically a pair of inclined elevators: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29403578 The distinction between a funicular and an inclined elevator is to me a technical one. Many inclined elevators, like the previous example, are named as funiculars, and passengers may not even notice that they are on one or the other - for all they know, they're just on a vehicle going up and down steeply sloped rails. I'm in favor of tagging inclined elevators as funiculars whenever they may resemble one. Perhaps an additional tag like railway:funicular=inclined_elevator could be invented for those interested in the technical details on how the steep-slope-railway-thing works. -Clay >
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