Hello all, in my endeavour to improve the mapping and tagging along waterways, I noticed that there is no approved or documented tag for ladders along shorelines. There is ladder=yes (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ladder), but it seems to be meant for hiking paths and is only rendered on lines. I mapped a few ladder=yes along river shores on OSMAnd, only to discover that I need to add the quay wall to have them rendered which is a lot of extra effort, and cannot be done casually using OSMAnd.
After talking to someone who canoes, they tell me that many of the ones I had mapped along the retaining wall in the town where I live are actually for emergencies, when people fall into the river. They're not meant to be used by swimmers, i.e. they're not actually accessible from the shore with a gate in the fence. Then I'm thinking, should it be emergency=ladder? But what if one isn't sure if they are for boating people or only for emergency situations? So I'm now mapping them as man_made=ladder (and add ladder=yes, so they get rendered), as other people have done in harbour or river situations before me, but only very infrequently. 30 are mapped as ladder for scuba diving (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/scuba_diving%3Aentry%3Aladder#overview), but the average person might not know, if there is no signage. I think a simpler way would be to just use man_made=ladder and add the sport or the emergency tag to the best of ones knowledge. Anne
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