How do you tag ladders attached to a building?

This kind of ladder that has a cage on the outside.

1 Like

There is a ladder=yes tag that is used on ‘paths’ that go up cliffs. They also have a tag for safety ropes but I’m not aware of anything for safety cages.

If building related it might also benefit from a level tag as for stairs.

1 Like

That’s what I did. I just wasn’t sure if there was a more specific way.

1 Like

I think that’s how I tagged one once with access=private and locked=yes. It’s to bad there isn’t a tag specifically for ladders on the sides of buildings, but I could never find one when I looked. It might be worth seeing if the definition could or should be extended outside of cliff ladders though since I image there’s a lot of building side ladders out there that haven’t been mapped yet.

It’s to bad there isn’t a tag specifically for ladders on the sides of buildings, but I could never find one when I looked.

I would use highway=ladder which has very modest use along the time
http://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/highway/ladder

on a node of a building outline.
You can specify the type of ladder with the ladder tag, and the size with step_count and height

2 Likes

The tag highway=ladder was just approved by voting.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dladder

2 Likes