[Accessibility] Fwd: [Tagging] Wheelchair lift

Gregory nomoregrapes at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 1 23:54:44 BST 2011


http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lifts

<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lifts>e.g.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1108410610
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1108410610>(that one connects to
the carpark, but the top two levels are less than 10 steps apart and needed
for wheelchairs to cross the pedestrian area).

<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/lifts>I don't think
there is any reason to make it wheelchair specific, a lift is a lift.

On 30 September 2011 14:38, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>wrote:

> FYI, crossposting from tagging
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>
> Date: 2011/9/30
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Wheelchair lift
> To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
>
>
> On 23/09/2011 21:01, David Earl wrote:
> >
> > I can't immediately see reference to structures like I have ringed here:
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Wheelchair_lift.jpg
> > It is a small platform to lift a wheelchair, usually as an alternative
> > to nearby steps. Though you get them in buildings, which would usually
> > be outside the scope of OSM, they are also found outdoors like this one.
> >
> > Does anyone know of existing tagging for this?
> >
> > I'm sure we can all think of tagging for it, but at this stage I'm more
> > interested in whether anyone knows of tags *already* in use.
>
> No one got excited by this, so I used
>  amenity=wheelchair_lift
>
> David
>
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Gregory
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