holgerd

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Comment · 6 years ago

sure, please contact me and my team here: https://news.wheelmap.org/en/contact/

Comment · 6 years ago

Thanks. Wheelmap is localized in 32 languages and has places mapped in 200 countries. :)

Comment · 6 years ago

I spoke with onWheels a couple of years back. Great to see they want to open up their data. Will contact you separately.

Comment · 6 years ago

We found that "mapping events" as we call it are a very suitable group activity with social distancing. The virtual event connects the people who go out separately to map the accessibility of places.

Comment · 6 years ago

Yes, these contributions will show up on Wheelmap as well, thanks!

Comment · 6 years ago

wheelchair-routing is a difficult, unsolved problem IMHO. Yes you can use a profile in Graphhopper and the Heidelberg University did a large project as well.

When talking with wheelchair users I learnt that they often improvise on the routes they take, for example crossing the road even without curb-cut because it is quicker for them or trash bins blocking the sidewalk.

We plan to integrate a base layer design like https://www.accessmap.io/ which can help with basic orientation (eg. red-colored streets if they have a steep incline for example).

At the same time it would be great to have very detailed data about sidewalks in general. Apart from OSM I think this is an interesting definition: https://sharedstreets.io/

Comment · 6 years ago

Thanks for adding places! Yes, we plan to change the wording regarding toilets a little bit. When people add new places, we ask some more specific questions already. We also have > 100.000 photos of places, which are mostly entrances and toilets.

Comment · 6 years ago

Some sources are open-licensed (which we provide right away when you use our API), and some only agreed to share with Wheelmap (for example Foursquare, HERE Maps, and others). We would love to see the license-compatible places in OSM as well but agree that a mass import is not the right way.

Comment · 6 years ago

Thanks. Wheelmap is really minimalisitic in the number of questions, and we often get asked to extend it. It's only after we worked with all the other sources which had more detail that we start to show these. It's more difficult to map but when users add a new place we ask more questions today.

Comment · 6 years ago

You are right. Thank you!

Comment · 6 years ago

Co-founder of Wheelmap here. Great to see it mentioned! Wheelmap is 10 years old this year and has 1 Million places from OSM (and synced back) and 1.3 million places from ca 130 other sources which we aggregated as one API for others to use as well. You can find more info on https://www.accessibility.cloud/.

We also try to standardize accessibility data on https://a11yjson.org and https://www.w3.org/community/lda/

Happy to answer any questions (but have bad internet connectivity for the next few hours)

Comment · 7 years ago

This has a wheelchair routing profile (implemented by some folks at the Heidelberg University): https://maps.openrouteservice.org

Would love to evolve this and integrate it into https://wheelmap.org one day!

It's also based on OpenStreetMap, but I am not sure how good the coverage of pavement quality and curb cuts are in diffewrent parts of the world.

Comment · 7 years ago

Thanks for the mention! Co-founder of Wheelmap here. Happy to see people here find it useful as well.

Comment · 15 years ago

Great to see this happen in Berlin, finally. I'm in!