Hi Peter, 2011/10/3 Peter Wendorff <[email protected]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
