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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?

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[-] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Uh... Don't? OSM is a map for humans. We don't need specific instructions to navigate a fire escape staircase.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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.

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