[Accessibility] wheelchair=yes/no vs. public_transport=stop_position/platform

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi Mike.
It's good you think about it, but I fear, it's hard to give a good 
answer to that question.

In my opinion the platform has a wheelchair accessibility itself, that 
describes the accessibility by wheelchair from the street/city to the 
platform,
but at the connection between platform and train the wheelchair 
accessibility cannot be defined by the platform usually.

There are platforms/stations, where stopping vehicles (e.g. trains) 
don't have an equal entrance height. Some may have steps to reach the 
entrance, most modern ones are designed to not need them.
As it may be dependent on the mobile parts, it's sometimes impossible to 
tag a wheelchair accessibility at that point in general.

Some systems may be standardized to guarantee that, but some are not.

I don't know how exactly the wheelmap authors decide to tag public 
transport stations.
Perhaps you should ask there, why these changes occur.

But I would be interested in the answer as well, so I would appreciate 
to read it (e.g. here) later.

regards
Peter


Am 03.10.2011 20:49, schrieb Michael Forster:
> Hi,
>
> According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport
> I'm tagging train halts/stations with (at least) two types of OSM
> elements:
>
> * A node on the route with public_transport=stop_position
> (railway=station/halt).
> * A node, way or area next to the route with public_transport=platform
> (railway=platform).
>
> Where does the wheelchair=yes/no tag go?
>
> My naive thought was that it should go on the platform, not on the
> stop position, because I imagine that it is the platform that
> determines the accessibility, not the stop position. (I'm not a
> wheelchair user, so I'm guessing).
>
> But my edits keep getting overridden by anonymous edits from
> wheelmap.org, which places the tags on the stop position and seems to
> ignore the platforms.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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