Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-24 Thread John F. Eldredge
The width is important as well. I have been on footpaths that slanted downward across the face of a steep incline. The slope of the path was moderate, but the path was only about half a meter wide, with 45-degree slopes above and below the path. A person on foot could navigate the path (pref

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-09 Thread Gerd Petermann
Andy Townsend wrote > Have you tried contacting any of the consumers of the "access_ramp" > data? I'm assuming that none (or almost none) of them will read the > tagging list; the DE forum will find a few, but a small portion of the > number internationally. :-( My hope was to get in contact w

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-08 15:35 GMT+01:00 Andy Townsend : > a steep footpath with corners that weren't negotiable by a wheelchair > could still be tagged with an incline like that. a steep way is never suitable for wheelchairs, at least not according to construction standards (e.g. in Germany, 6% is the maxim

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Andy Townsend
On 08/01/2016 08:45, Gerd Petermann wrote: I'd like to see that the existing highway=access_ramp are changed to the well known highway=footway wheelchair=yes in combination with incline=x% The explicit "wheelchair=yes" would definitely be needed with those tags as they don't make it cl

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-08 12:28 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer : > if trucks can use it, tag it service. > yes, but don't tag it wheelchair ramp then. ;-) Cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote on 2016/01/08 11:23: 2016-01-08 10:31 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis: [...] with highway=access_ramp (duck tagging) I indicate that the path was designed for wheelchair users. Don't I loose some information with highway=footway, wheelchair=yes, incline=up ? Y

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-08 11:41 GMT+01:00 Gerd Petermann : > ramp:wheelchair=yes > good finding, why not use this together with highway=footway? It's used more than 2300 times: http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/ramp%3Awheelchair but the typical steps are too steep for wheelchair ramps, so those are > normally > ad

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri Jan 8 10:41:35 2016 GMT, Gerd Petermann wrote: > > Good points. > We already have the tag ramp=* for ramps along highway=steps: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ramp > and it has a special > ramp:wheelchair=yes > but the typical steps are too steep for wheelchair ramps, so tho

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Gerd Petermann
dieterdreist wrote > 2016-01-08 10:31 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis < > marc.gemis@ > >: > >> I have a question about this. I think I can recognise an access ramp >> for wheelchair users when I see one. In general I don't know the >> incline %, but I assume that it was designed in such a way that the >>

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2016-01-08 10:31 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis : > I have a question about this. I think I can recognise an access ramp > for wheelchair users when I see one. In general I don't know the > incline %, but I assume that it was designed in such a way that the > majority of wheelchair users can use it. > > wit

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Gerd Petermann
Marc Gemis wrote > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Gerd Petermann > < > GPetermann_muenchen@ > > wrote: >> I'd like to see that the existing highway=access_ramp >> >> are changed to the well known >> >> highway=footway >> >> wheelchair=yes >> >> in combination with >> >> incline=x% > > > I have

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Marc Gemis
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Gerd Petermann wrote: > I'd like to see that the existing highway=access_ramp > > are changed to the well known > > highway=footway > > wheelchair=yes > > in combination with > > incline=x% I have a question about this. I think I can recognise an access ramp for w

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Gerd Petermann
Gerd Petermann wrote > > Marc Gemis wrote >>> >>> after a review by local mappers >>> >>> and that the wiki pages are changed accordingly. >>> >>> If I hear no complains I'll change the english and german page >>> >>> next sunday. >> >> That's a pretty tight deadline. Wouldn't it be better to wai

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Gerd Petermann
Marc Gemis wrote >> >> after a review by local mappers >> >> and that the wiki pages are changed accordingly. >> >> If I hear no complains I'll change the english and german page >> >> next sunday. > > That's a pretty tight deadline. Wouldn't it be better to wait at least > 1 or 2 weeks? Perhaps i

Re: [Tagging] Question reg. wheelchair mapping

2016-01-08 Thread Marc Gemis
> > after a review by local mappers > > and that the wiki pages are changed accordingly. > > If I hear no complains I'll change the english and german page > > next sunday. That's a pretty tight deadline. Wouldn't it be better to wait at least 1 or 2 weeks? Perhaps in the meantime, you could indic