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inclined elevators #75

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Following a discussion on the tagging mailing list, I wonder if it would be valuable to have a preset with highway=elevator on a way to map inclined elevators. This is explicitly supported by the wiki.
railway=funicular is often used for that purpose instead, but there are many indoors inclined elevators that really look and behave like regular elevators and not funiculars at all; see for example the left of the picture in this article or on the right here.

Those elevators are not displayed on the default OSM map, and one of the arguments against supporting them there is that they are rare in the database... but I suspect they are rare mostly because they are not supported by editors in the first place. I personally know several of those elevators around Stockholm, and they may be common in other places too.

In addition, when typing "elevator" in the search bar for the feature type when selecting a way, only irrelevant results appear, which might lead some features to be incorrectly tagged.
Right now this is what I get on Firefox:
elevator_search

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