How to tag wheelchair lift?

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How to tag wheelchair lift?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ThyssenKrupp_wheelchair_lift_in_Moscow_03.jpg

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There are a very small number of tags with “stairlift” in them, most wheelchair:* keys, and there are two examples of stair_lift=yes https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/stair_lift. See https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=stairlift#values. Conventional stairlifts are smaller & have a seat for the occupant rather than a platform, but these are mainly in use in private dwellings.

The other kind of wheelchair lift is a simple platform moving vertically to bypass short-sections of stairs. You can just make out one in this photograph https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Wollaton_Hall%2C_Nottingham_%282%29.JPG

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Yeah, but I think we need such tag :slight_smile:
There is ramp tag. We have ramp:wheelchair=yes and ramp:luggage=yes/automatic/manual so I think there should be something like ramp:wheelchair=lift or similar.

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I’d like to revive this discussion, as I recently found a few outdoor stair lifts installed in underpasses to make them wheelchair accessible. See Google Maps for an example.

Would it be a good idea to introduce ramp:stair_lift=yes? They are functionally similar to other kinds of ramps, so maybe it would be best to add it as a value to the ramp key?

The example is quite complicated: how to tag so that it is clear that it is one continuous stair lift that goes up 3 separately mapped steps?

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Would it be a good idea to introduce ramp:stair_lift=yes? They are functionally similar to other kinds of ramps

to me the words stairlift and ramp are mutually exclusive, so this proposed tag doesn’t make sense to me.

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Stair lifts are always found with highway=steps so are a feature of steps. If ramp is defined as “a way to help less mobile users get up and down the steps”, then a stair lift is a ramp. That’s how it makes sense to me.
An elevator also has such a function, but it is always separately mapped and often some distance away from the steps.

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A ramp, for me, is built for everything with wheels - including wheelchairs, but also bicycles, and even suitcases. Depending on the amount and width of the ramp, these can then be pushed up and down.
Since a stairlift is “usually” found on stairs, I’d simply tag it as either stair_lift=yes or steps:stair_lift=yes on the highway=steps.

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For me, a stair lift goes up and down the stairs. An alternative to the stairs maybe a ramp or a lift; the ramp is tagged as ramp=yes on the highway=steps; so I would simply tag the lift as lift=yes on the highway=steps.

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Stair lifts are always found with highway=steps so are a feature of steps. If ramp is defined as “a way to help less mobile users get up and down the steps”, then a stair lift is a ramp. That’s how it makes sense to me

but „ramp=*“ is defined as indicating that the feature has a ramp, that’s why it doesn’t make sense to use it for stairlifts

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Hey!
I found this thread linked in a note=*-Tag. Just for those interested, there has been a successful proposal recently trying to solve this issue, establishing the new tags platform_lift= and more!

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Wheelchair_lifts_and_ramps_on_platforms for more info.

Best,
Wieland (on behalf of OPENER next)