Tag:highway=steps

+/- highway=steps Description For flights of steps on footways. Used on these elements Useful combination name step_count Implies access=no foot=yes Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status Undefined

For flights of steps on footways.

Contents 1 How to map 2 Extended usage 3 See also 4 Examples

How to map

To map steps nothing else than a simple way () is required. Add the highway=steps tag to it.

Discussion whether the direction of the way should point up- or downhill is so far been inconclusive. It's possible to tag this explicitly using incline=up or incline=down. (A previously suggested alternative method has been to use direction=up or direction=down, which are equivalent to the incline tags. This method is less common and a "direction" key is used for several other purposes.)

Add a name=* if the steps have a special name.

Extended usage

highway=steps escalator=yes/parallel/(no) escalator_dir=up/down/dynamic/skywalk

highway=steps step_count=NumberOfSteps

highway=steps width=WidthInMeters

tactile_paving=yes/(no)/incorrect if there is a paving on both ends of the steps that can be found with a blind person's stick.

highway=steps handrail=yes/(no)

• Ramps that are part of a highway=steps can be described using the tags on Key:ramp
• Proposed_features/Access_Ramp is a proposal for tagging independent ramps
• Escalators can be tagged using either Proposed_features/Escalator or Proposed_features/Conveyor
• There is the possibility to tag staircases as a node, but the discussion is still on it. (For more please see the discussions tab above)

See also

• Proposed features/Steps features for additional tags describing steps
• Proposed Relation: Level
• Relations/Proposed/Area#area-steps for mapping area steps
• DE:Stairs_modelling for a work in progress concept to model details (part of OSM-4D)

Examples

Picture/Description	Tags	Mapnik	Osmarender
	highway=steps ramp=no step_count=* handrail:left=yes handrail:right=yes
	highway=steps ramp=yes wheelchair=no ramp:stroller=yes ramp:bicycle=yes handrail=yes		See Bremen for reference. Related terms: steps. stair. staircase. stairway.