Proposed features/wheelchair

The Feature Page for the approved proposal wheelchair can be located at Key:wheelchair.

wheelchair
Status:	Approved (active)
Proposed by:	<unknown>
Tagging:	wheelchair=yes/no
Applies to:	node/ area/ amenity/ highway=footpath
Definition:	<definition>
Rendered as:	international accepted logo
Draft start:
RFC start:	*
Vote start:	2007-08-16
Vote end:	2008-03-24

10 percent of world population is handicapped or have similar impairment. It would be nice to tag special places like cinemas, theatres , city toilets , footways (without steps) and so on with a special logo. --Metehyi 20:58, 16 August 2007 (BST)

Discussion

A good idea, but we need to discuss how best to include this information. Here are some initial thoughts:

• step_free_access=yes (if a venue is completely accessible for those wanting to avoid steps).
• Detailed information about the accessibility of the insides of buildings (or tube station) is out of scope for open street map, and better provided by dedicated websites.
• An effort should be made to tag steps in parks and gardens, to aid those with accessibility/mobility problems.
• Toilets are of special importance, so disabled toilets should be tagged with an extension of the amenity=toilets tag (probably worth tagging male/female/baby-changing toilets too).

Frankie Roberto 19:06, 17 August 2007 (BST)

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Hi Frankie

I agree with you about toilets, especially on the roads, for hotels and other places of tourism also it is very important.

In the airways indutry there is an internanional agreed keyword for passengers with wheelchair or physical impairments and they use simply the word wheelchair as a codeword on the tickets etc... this means that wherever the passenger is landing in the world he will get the necessay assitance etc... there is also an International pictogram which is seen everywhere in the world.

I am working on a SVG version of it.

in my view we can use it as a property of a node like :

• amenity=hotel
• wheelchair=yes

or

• amenity=cinema
• wheelchair=no

so that the corresponding logo appears near it

or for example

• highway=footway
• wheelchair=no

if there are stairs along this footway !

some more examples :

• amenity=public_building
• wheelchair=yes

route=bus

wheelchair=yes/no etc...

--Metehyi 20:11, 17 August 2007 (BST)

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tentative pictograms

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Hello,

what about limited wheelchair access, like cinemas where you need to ask for a key or busses where only some directions use wheelchair accessible busses? Shouldn't there be a Wheelchair=limited ?

I don't think the logo should be shaded to white.

Rest ist great! Lulu-Ann

--Lulu-Ann 15:00, 24 March 2008 (CET)

I am afraid that there will be many pubs marked as wheelchair=yes because there are no steps, but the toiled doors are too small... --Lulu-Ann 13:08, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Vote

I vote yes to this property. --Metehyi 17:55, 17 August 2007 (BST)

• I approve wheelchair=yes|no (Proposed Features shows this as open for voting since August?) MikeCollinson 18:03, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
• I approve these proposal. --Bahnpirat 17:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal.--Walley 16:46, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
• I approve wheelchair=yes|no Dieterdreist 12:15, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
• I approve wheelchair=yes|no --Uboot 12:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
• I approve wheelchair=yes|no --Colin Marquardt 15:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
• I approve wheelchair=yes|no --Stefku 16:56, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --achadwick 17:40, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --BDROEGE 18:39, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --Chrischan 22:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal.--Master 14:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. wheelchair=yes|no only. --Hawke 20:14, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
• I approve wheelchair=yes|no --Tordanik 18:27, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
• I approve wheelchair=yes|no --GeoFranzi 10:34, 24 May 2008 (UTC+1)
• I approve this proposal. At last an easy vote :) --PhilippeP 08:43, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. wheelchair=yes|no|limited --Grille Chompa 20:21, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. wheelchair=yes|no|limited --Lulu-Ann 08:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)