Key:ladder
 ladder
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Property whether a feature has a ladder. 
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Status: approved
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This tag indicates the presence of a ladder, mapped as property of a feature. Originally it was voted for ladders on hiking trails in mountainous areas where dangerous or difficult sections are secured by technical means like steel cables, fixed ropes, ladders, or rungs, where the tag indicates the presence of a ladder, but the tag is now also used for hunting stands, giant furniture, and generally any other feature providing a ladder.
To map the ladder on its own, use highway=ladder.
How to map
- See also: Safety measures on hiking trails
Use ladder=yes for parts of hiking trails with a ladder. It was suggested to use the length in meters instead of yes as a value, for example ladder=13, however it is also possible to tag this with height=* or length=*, which are more standard tags.
This tag is added to an existing highway=path. Short sections can be tagged as node 
, longer sections as way 
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This was originally invented for hiking trails, but can be also used in combination with highway=via_ferrata.
Main Tag
| Key | Value | Element | Description | Example |
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| ladder | yes | |
The feature has a ladder |
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Whole Path
If you don't want to split a longer highway=path into several segments to tag their particular safety measures you can add the following tag to the whole highway=path:
| Key | Value | Element | Description |
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| assisted_trail | yes | |
Way segment with various safety measures |
See also
- amenity=hunting_stand – a hunting stand, commonly used in combination with ladder=*
- Safety measures on hiking trails
- highway=via_ferrata
- highway=steps
- safety_rope=*
- rungs=*
- sac_scale=*
- highway=ladder – ladders as features, rather than as property of a feature as is done here