I've looked into these. Most inclined elevators seem to also operate with cables, with the difference being that in a funicular there are 2 cars attached to 1 cable, so one ascends while the other descends, but in an inclined elevator each car (or there might only be 1 car) is attached to a counterweight or a winch.
Unfortunately it looks like most uses of the tag highway=elevator on a way are actually areas (closed ways): https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10S8 - 3080 highway=elevator ways are closed. A review of a few of these suggests they are mostly 4 node rectangular ways which represent the area of a verticle elevator. About half are tagged indoor=room - https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10Se vs https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/10S9 - 190 ways which are not closed. These look to be inclined elevators, though in some cases it’s not possible to tell if they might actually be a funicular instead. While railway=funicular is 10 times as common, this might or might not represent the actual relative frequency of these features in the real world, I don’t know. 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. -- Joseph Eisenberg On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:55 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 08:33, Guillaume Chauvat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Yes, but this is a node, not a way. Inclined elevators require a way and >> those are not displayed properly. >> > > Sorry, didn't get what you were getting at! > > Graeme > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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