Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Christoph Bünte
> <christ...@sozialhelden.de>wrote:
> 
> >
> > Am 18.04.2013 um 13:33 schrieb André Riedel:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > do you still support only poi nodes instead of areas too (e.g.
> > buildings, parks, ...)? If so, one reason could be the change from
> poi
> > nodes to better poi areas.
> >
> > Thanks to Frederik Ramm we also support ways for more than a year
> now. My
> > first guess was that there was something wrong on our servers. But
> > everything works fine. That's why i think there a conversion from
> one tag
> > to another going on. As it is happening all over the world this
> might be
> > something with public transport. But i couldn't figure out which.
> >
> 
> What about relations? Although I'm not sure that would account for all
> of
> those numbers.
> 
> 
> >
> > > For example:
> > > Previously tagged node of a restaurant is replaced by a more
> complex
> > way. This way represents the whole restaurant building and is of
> course
> > tagged with the wheelchair-key.
> > >
> > > Next question: Could you show the best entrance to a restaurant,
> if one
> > is accessible by a wheelchair and the second one not?
> >
> > No, we don't. Is this a feature request?
> 
> 
> Yes and it has been declined before :)
> 
> http://wheelmap.uservoice.com/forums/31554-general/suggestions/1157049-support-entrances-to-buildings
> 
> And I can see the reasoning for things like restaurants and such being
> more
> confusing but for larger buildings (universities, malls, government
> buildings, etc) it really would be useful.
> 
> Toby
> 
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I agree that this is a good idea.  Even for smaller buildings, the 
wheelchair-accessible entrance may be on a different side of the building than 
the primary entrance.

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John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
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think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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