[Tagging] subway_entrance

[Bjoern Hassler]

Certainly wheelchair=yes/no in conjunction with railway=subway_entrance is
used a lot in central London:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/hap

Bjoern

On 6 July 2016 at 15:33, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 16:23 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> >
> > sent from a phone
> >
> > Il giorno 06 lug 2016, alle ore 16:05, Bjoern Hassler <bjohas+mw at gmai
> > l.com> ha scritto:
> > >
> > >
> > > However, how would you look for subway_entrances that are
> > > accessible? If the lift is mapped separately, it won't be mapped as
> > > a subway_entrance (as there should only be one subway_entrance per
> > > physical entrance)?
> >
> > I don't follow you here. If the lift leads to the subway, why
> > couldn't I apply subway entrance to it? Clearly it is a physical
> > entrance, isn't it?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > It would be much simpler to the map users (e.g. via OSMAND) to view
> > > accessible entrances as a single POI. Extracting "subway_entrance +
> > > nearby elevator (with the function of accessing the subway)" seems
> > > like an error prone task.
> >
> > if there are only steps, the entrance isn't accessible to
> > wheelchairs. See above for the lift
> >
> A subway entrance normally leads into a ticket hall where there are
> machines to buy tickets, the barriers and then the lift and/or stairs
> are beyond those.
>
> Unless you are going to start indoor mapping the barriers then
> stairs=yes/no, lift=yes/no make perfect sense on the entrance.
>
> Entrances also need opening hours, some are not open at weekends or
> late in the evening.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
>
>
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