Hello Dietmar,<br><br>we are running a similar project in a small town in Italy.<br><br>It is a participatory mapping project, sponsored by local and regional authorities, aimed at mapping accessibility of road and path segments for persons with reduced mobility (wheelchair but also children trolleys or aged persons). The participants defined the key factors and the accessibility model.<br>
<br>We have now a first map of accessibility that is undergoing a reviewing by active citizens. A draft is here [1] and the presentation we gave at SOTM10 is here [2]<br><br>The next step is to deploy an accessibility portal kept up-to-date by citizens themselves. It will be out by next September; we'll circulate the launch on the list.<br>
<br>This is only the first step toward the implementation of more services. As a matter of fact the municipality intends to use that map as a working tool during spatial planning and decision making and we are looking for new funds or sponsors to improve the range of services and to open to other disabilities.<br>
<br>As final step we are looking possible strategies to feed the results back to OSM and in case to keep the information updated through OSM API. Also routing is something we are interested in, we are trying to find some master student interested in using this as a test case.<br>
<br>We would be happy to give our contribution toward definition of styles and procedures.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Simone<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.comune.castelfiorentino.fi.it/castelfiorentino/dati/urp/files/zip/20100707085817_184_13903_15.zip">http://www.comune.castelfiorentino.fi.it/castelfiorentino/dati/urp/files/zip/20100707085817_184_13903_15.zip</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/geologyx/sotm-2010-mapping-accessibility-in-castelfiorentino-italy">http://www.slideshare.net/geologyx/sotm-2010-mapping-accessibility-in-castelfiorentino-italy</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/7/20 Dietmar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ostrmap@diesei.de">ostrmap@diesei.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Hello
list-member,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">i want to
inform you a litte bit about the project, because the orginally osm wiki page
[1] is only in german available.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">About two
years ago, a project started at the locally university in augsburg (at
geographic computer-science department) to collect data from the inner area in
augsburg, how the (foot)ways could be used by persons in wheelchairs or with
walker (US) oder zimmer (GB) (in german: rollator). The city government
supported the university with money and with technical support from their local
geographic department.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Students from
the university collected the data, based on some forms, which detailted data to
get. They took tablet pcs with onboard high resolution bitmap pictures
from air. The data went into an open licensed gis (geographic information
system) and additionally microsoft database.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">The collected
following data (each as different technical layers in the gis) (sorry for
unknown/bad english words in following):</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* footway
sloped curbs: footway segments, where they are be lower for pedestrian crossing
the streets or for parking cars on private ground (hight of the sloped curb and
transferse inclination)</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* traffic
signals for pedestrians, including kind of signals, buttons with tactile and/or
acustic sound for blind persons, </font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* footways
and living streets without footways (some old small streets) as areas with the
information about surface and smoothness (some nice details ;)
)</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* amenities
from public offices, tourism buildings and points, other amenities like schools
and churches with a lot details about accessibilty (see
below)</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* narrow
points on (foot)ways, where its smaller than 1.20m in width. Reason are too
small footways, signs as barriers, other things, which decrease the width of the
ways to lower than 1.20m</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* tram and
bus stops (with no relevant information) for the users in wheelchairs and
walker/zimmer.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* inclination
of (foot)ways as areas. messurement in degrees.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* transferse
inclination as areas. Most times, reason is a sloped curb oder a bad builded
footway.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* standard
parking areas (multi-storey, underground) with or without capacity for disabled
persons and single special parking areas for disabled persons
only.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* a few
gutter on a pedestrian way (old ways contain sometimes gutter to collect rain
water and to transport to underground), which are not so easy to pass for
wheelchair drivers</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">*
benches</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* steps on
ways</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* taxi
stops</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* public
telephones</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* public and
semi-public toilets, which can be used with wheelchairs</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* very
detailed: the best useable way for a disabled person to an amenity (described
above). the entrance can be on ground, can have a single step, more steps or a
ramp to use with wheelchair/walker/zimmer.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* very,
very detailed: the entrance door: turning-door, push-door, practically
useable width with wheelchair, how easy to open, auto-open button and a lot more
details</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">In total, the
project has about 3.850 data records. one-third are sloped curbs (not complete
footways, only a short or longer way-part, where it is lowered).
</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">In a first
step, i got the agrrement to import the data in openstreetmap with our acutla
cc-by-sa 2.0 license for a test area, which is about 15% of the complete project
area, with about 500 data records.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">At the osm
wiki page, i describe in german the details data structure with all fields and
their appearance as point data, ways or areas (closed ways in osm) and the
transformation from the project fieldnames to their equivalents in osm, if
available.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Some data
don't have a tags in osm, so i took some temporarily tags and try to discuss the
future tags in osm (hard work, because of a lot of wiki pages, which are
available, but are not consistent).</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Now, i'm
nearly finished the inport, but not the integration of the data. The sloped
curbs are my biggest problem, because they are most of the time only short
segments, and i declared them as a new barrier type
barrier=curb.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">My actual
todos are:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* integration
of some layers (steps are not useable at all, because they have not correct
position)</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* waiting for
a further data source: i can get the public buildings with city person contacts
as polygons in a short time</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* i try to
build render rules for osmarend renderer. At this time, only to demonstrate the
possibility to build a map offline (unfortunately) and with layer zoom 17 and 18
at this time.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* i try to
build a map for my garmin gsp logger: both for integration of the project data
on field and for demonstration for late use by the disabled
persons.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* waiting for
last questions about interpreting some detailes of the project data by
university.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Next
steps:</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* give the
signal to the project members and demonstrate the kind of integration in
openstreetmap</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* get the go
signals for rest of data import</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">* continue
the data collection (next year, a few times, in augsburg there will be a few
games of the women soccer world-championship. This is a big push for the city
government to get more data for disabled persons, because they want to show
their support to those groups.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I cannot
translate the osm wiki page at all to english version, but hope, that this post
is enough for you to get informed about this osm import
project.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">In the next
days, i have to include the link to the osm wiki page accessibilty, i forgot in
the past.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Greetings,</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Dietmar</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">aka
okilimu at openstreetmap</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Augsburg/Datenspende_Stadtplan_f%C3%BCr_barrierefreie_Mobilit%C3%A4t" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Augsburg/Datenspende_Stadtplan_für_barrierefreie_Mobilität</a></font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:accessibility-bounces@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">accessibility-bounces@openstreetmap.org</a>]<b>Im Auftrag von</b>
Gianfranco Gliozzo<br><b>Gesendet am:</b> Samstag, 26. Juni 2010
00:44<br><b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:accessibility@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">accessibility@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Betreff:</b> Re:
[Accessibility] Daten aus Stadtplan für barrierefreie Mobilität aus
Augsburg<br></font>Thank you for your abstract.<br><br>Looks very interesting,
please report us your experience the way we can all
participate.<br><br>Gianfranco<br><br></div>
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