2011/10/7 David Earl <da...@frankieandshadow.com> > Any suggestions as to how to represent some steps... > > These steps aren't that unusual I guess, but they aren't a staircase. They > form the edges of a piazza-like platform, running most of the way around it. > There are only 4 steps, but they are several of them, up to about 40m wide: > http://twitpic.com/6whcou > > I could do a polygon tagged > highway=steps > area=yes > but then there is a problem indicating which is the incline of the steps, > as incline=up no longer makes sense. How would you know that it is a wide, > short set of steps rather than a long, more conventional staircase. > > I could do a way > highway=steps > incline=right > to indicate that the direction of the steps is across the way rather than > along it, though of course no renderer will understand that, and one could > in principle have both long and wide steps. (Indeed, people who went to > Girona will remember that the steps up to the Cathedral there are maybe 25m > wide and 50m long, wider than the building they lead up to; these are > currently a simple way in OSM). >
I'm interested in the matter too. The only thing I could think of is to make a relation that includes both the area and a way, whose direction (or tagging) indicates which way is up. Note that there's also the case where there's a "regular" staircase with long steps. This happens not only in urban environments but also in hill and mountain areas, where a path that goes up a hill could be split into "steps" to ease those walking up. The path may be a few metres wide and the steps may even be 50 metres long. David Regards, Simone
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