This is a pretty common staircase type where I live but how do I map it? Should I make lines over each other multiple times, each with different level? Or just one line and don’t care about the other floors? I don’t know if I’m searching for wrong terms but I have a surprisingly hard time on getting info about stairs mapping.
Can you point me to the right direction or post some example?
Uh… Don’t? OSM is a map for humans. We don’t need specific instructions to navigate a fire escape staircase.
I respectably disagree.
Yes, OSM is for humans but navigation isn’t its only purpose. People are mapping mundane things like trees, grass patches or manholes, in my opinion a huge structure like a staircase is worth mapping, even if as a single point. And actually - this concrete staircase is actually used daily by the people in that office building, so it’s not just a fire escape.
Please don’t kill the enthusiasm in people
I’m not trying to kill anything. I guess I misapprehended the goal of the project.
No, it is not. OSM is a database of geodata. The rules are clear: what is in there, must be (semi)permanent and observable. A fire staircase meets those requirements.
If you (or a dataconsumer) doesn’t care about this data, they can simply take a copy and delete from that copy what they don’t need.