Re: [Tagging] tagging very wide steps - highway=steps on an area?

[André Pirard]

On 2015-02-27 09:07, johnw wrote :  I read the wiki entry on steps (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dsteps) and the discussion page,  and besides the discussion on which direction means uphill (that really needs to be decided), I had another big question -  can I use steps to define an area, just like highway=pedestrian?  There are sets of steps that are a very large and wide, sometimes as wide as a building, but there is no way to tag their expanse properly. This is exactly the same kind of question as the one I raised about pedestrian crossings. They are places where pedestrian can walk safely and they can also extend on a rather large areas and be along a way (on it, not beside), or even be a way by themselves when they are painted across an area such as a parking lot. The conclusion is that crossing=* can simply apply no nodes, ways, and areas. There was first a reaction against these unusual situation. Then, after I wrote a fuller explanation, silence. The saying says that silence is agreement. Rejoining your case, I once had to map a special step configuration. It's a monument called "perron" in this region, made of a some 50+ cm stone pole and surrounded by a base made of circular steps (piled up decreasing radius disks in SVG). I don't remember exactly how I mapped that steps= circle, but I remember that it was erased by a member of the species who simply erase what they don't understand without even contacting the author. Beware of getting out of the queue (line) ! ;-) Cheers André. I am currently (micro?)mapping a large rose garden, and every single area - the pedestrian walkways, the grass, the hedges, pools - everything that isn’t a wall can be expressed as an area - except for the wide stairs connecting the large pedestrian areas.  Is it acceptable to tag stairs on an area, or is it only acceptable on a way? is there a possibility of putting a way under the area to define the direction of the steps, or would that mean making some kind of relation to make it happen (which I know little about)? and we will ever have an implied direction on stairs? (up sounds fine to me).  Javbw

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