How do you tag a skywalk / skyway / sky bridge. This is a bridge connecting two buildings usually covered and for pedestrians only. For references please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalk Regards asked 24 Nov '10, 23:25  ALE edited 26 Nov '10, 09:11  TomH ♦♦ |
3 Answers:
For substantial structures over narrower spans, like the ones in your link, I'd suggest and be sure to share 2 nodes or more in common with the adjoining buildings on each side. Here's one of the examples from the wikipedia link in OSM: "Bridge of Sighs", Oxford. For lighter, longer constructions of metal, say - "raised covered pedestrian walkways", "pedways" such as they have in big cities in very cold or very wet places, I would suggest Add in steps leading up to them as necessary, connect to neighbouring buildings at doorway points. answered 07 Jan '11, 17:12  Andrew Chadwick |
FWIW, I'm very new at this, but the way I've seen it done and how I've been doing it is setting with the following: highway=footway bridge=yes layer=1 I'm not entirely happy with this method, since it doesn't really render as a "building" on the maps. answered 25 Nov '10, 02:46  txaggie90 1 In reality it is a building and therefore IMHO it should be tagged as such and not as a highway. Is there no other way to tag a sky bridge? (27 Nov '10, 22:36) ALE 1 You could also use building=yes level=1. (28 Nov '10, 10:10) petschge 1 I think I may have done such taging for what was a wide corridor suspended between two buildings. and on another one close by, I added them as steps and deferent level tag values to each side [the floors between the two were a matching levelscheme]. The problem is when you try to transition between indoor and outdoor mapping and in larger spaces it can blured to which is which [outside fire escapes and large covered plazas etc]. What is needed is a indoor form of routing line to work like a highway way that isn't a highway because its just space inside part of a building. Tillonecomes we fudge (05 Aug '14, 18:34) Govanus |
If you go the the OSM wiki and search for "skywalk", you find: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Escalator answered 07 Jan '11, 15:00  Kartograefin |
shoudn't it be
layer=1, rather?yeah I think this works the best
It should be noted that highway=pedestrian is the wrong tag for one of these walkways, because that tag describes a pedestrianized-street. highway=footway would be more appropriate.