[OSM-talk] Wheelchair accessibility

[john whelan]

>As far as I am aware, all bus routes have to be wheelchair accessible by
law.

Unfortunately the law in different countries is not the same.  Locally it
is not a legal requirement but the province gives partial funding to
accessible buses.

Cheerio John

On 21 September 2017 at 03:17, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> As far as I am aware, all bus routes have to be wheelchair accessible by
> law.
>
> They certainly all use low floor kneeling buses locally.
>
> Phil
>
> On 21 September 2017 06:22:06 BST, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On 2017-09-20 23:10, john whelan wrote:
>>
>>>  I was at a presentation yesterday evening about accessibility, well it
>>>  was free coffee what more can I say?
>>>
>>>  All Ottawa buses have two spaces for wheelchairs.  We map wheelchair
>>>  accessible toilets and other things for the map but we currently as
>>>  far as I am aware we don't include information on things that move.
>>>
>>>  Should we and how would you do it?
>>>
>>>  For example I understand in the UK there are problems at many railway
>>>  stations.  Perhaps mapping railway stations as being wheelchair
>>>  accessible or not would be a start.
>>>
>>
>> Bus routes (public transport routes in general) get mapped with
>> weelchair=yes. Totally acceptable to do so to signify that the route is
>> accesible with a wheelchair.
>> E.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4257112
>> I would map public transport nodes and ways (the platform and
>> stop_position) with wheelchair too.
>>
>> Maarten
>>
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