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

[Michael Forster]

Hi Peter,

2011/10/3 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
> 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.

Wouldn't that be tagged on the route (and the platform) then?

> 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.

I'll ask them to contribute to this thread here.

Mike