Sorry for spamming.
I also think it's fine if the Montmarte funicular is tagged as a
funicular. But I'm asking because of things that are clearly elevators,
like this one:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-tekniska-hgskolan-metro-station-stermalm-district-stockholm-sweden-41948022.html
. It goes on a path parallel to the escalators, not vertically (I have
been inside). To me it looks very wrong to call this a funicular. But
maybe others disagree...
Guillaume
On 2020-12-05 00:07, Clay Smalley wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 5:00 PM Joseph Eisenberg
<[email protected] <mailto:[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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