Key:conveying

This key is used for the two most common types of conveyor transport for persons: escalators and moving walkways.

An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building.

A moving walkway (British English) or moving sidewalk (American English) (colloquially sometimes travelator, horizontal escalator, walkalator, autowalk, movator, people mover) is a slow-moving conveyor mechanism that transports people, across a horizontal or inclined plane, over a short to medium distance.

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  Several escalators

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  Horizontal moving walkway

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  Two inclined moving walkways

Tagging

The conveying key is used together with highway=steps (for escalators) or highway=footway (for moving walkways).

Note: In Simple Indoor Tagging conveying=yes is also used without one of these tags (and can be combined with stairs=yes and indoor=room or indoor=area on a indoor area).

Key	Value	Element	Comment
conveying	yes		Indicates that this feature is an escalator / moving walkway with unspecified direction
conveying	forward		Movement in way direction
conveying	backward		Movement opposite to way direction
conveying	reversible		Movement either with or opposing direction of way at one moment

Escalator tagging example

Note: This example combines elements following the Simple Indoor Tagging scheme with the escalators as generic indoor elements (the tag indoor=yes is not part of the original Simple Indoor Tagging scheme).

Other useful tags

• incline=up, incline=down or the more precise incline=[-]<number>% can be used for conveyors that aren't horizontal.
• width=*
• tactile_paving=yes/no
• level=*
• indoor=*
• duration=*
• Lanes (could be used for physically connected parallel escalators)
• Access (if some potential users are forbidden from using the escalator)

Examples

Ecuador

• Quito
  • Quicentro Shopping on OpenLevelUp! on OSM on OSM.cz

France

• Clermont Ferrand
  • Centre Jaude on OpenLevelUp! on OSM on OSM.cz

Panamá

• Panamá City
  • Multicentro Mall on OpenLevelUp! on OSM on OSM.cz

See also

• Proposed features/Goods conveyor for conveyors that transport goods.