Hello Catherine,<div>Congratulation for your project, it seems very good ! The french OSM community tries to collect such data. We already organised specific mapping parties all over the country. I think you speak french so have a look to this page : <a href="http://wiki.april.org/w/Mapping_Party_Accessibilit%C3%A9" target="_blank">http://wiki.april.org/w/Mapping_Party_Accessibilit%C3%A9</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><div>In France, there is an association, <i>J'accède, </i>that set up such a similar initiative : <a href="http://www.jaccede.com/accessible-places/" target="_blank">http://www.jaccede.com/accessible-places/</a><br>
Unfortunatly they use Gmap and there data are proprietary, but since I contacted them, they are planning to switch to OSM. They already have contacted the Wheelmap team.</div><div><br></div><div>I think you should get in contact with <i>J'accède</i>, I just sent your message to the technical responsible of the association.</div>
<div>yours</div><div>
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2012/2/28 Guttorm Flatabø <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gfl@vestforsk.no" target="_blank">gfl@vestforsk.no</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>I think Lulu-Ann meant <a href="http://wheelmap.org" target="_blank">wheelmap.org</a>, and I'd like to join her encouraging you to join them.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28. feb. 2012 17:14, <<a href="mailto:Lulu-Ann@gmx.de" target="_blank">Lulu-Ann@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello Catherine!<br>
<br>
> I am collaborating with some people here in Montreal to build a tool<br>
> that informs on the accessibility of public places. We have a first<br>
> prototype up at <a href="http://www.montrealaccessible.ca" target="_blank">www.montrealaccessible.ca</a>, that was thrown together this<br>
> week-end at a hackothon.<br>
<br>
Nice to hear that you are working on such a project.<br>
<br>
> I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to maps and stuff, so<br>
> apologies if some of this does not make sense, but I am told by the<br>
> hackers that the data is stored in Google Fusion Tables. And we have a<br>
> separate Google Spreadsheet that has a form that you can access from the<br>
> site. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the spreadsheet to be automatically<br>
> sent to the Fusion Table. So we would have to write a script to get that<br>
> to happen.<br>
<br>
Well, google maps is not really our topic here, but it should be easy to add some buttons to swap the map in the background to OSM.<br>
Happy you found your way to this list.<br>
<br>
> We are looking around for the best platform for our initiative. We have<br>
> been looking at Ushaidi and OSM. Our main concern of course is that<br>
> whatever we end up choosing is usable by people with different types of<br>
> disabilities so that they can contribute to data collection and also can<br>
> consult the data through the interface. I have looked at your wiki and<br>
> the section on accessibility. But unfortunately, it is rather ambiguous<br>
> with regards to just how accessible some of the related initiatives are.<br>
> Maybe I am not looking in the right place for this info...<br>
<br>
Best start for a project is always to do some searching for existing projects.<br>
There's <a href="http://wheelchair.org" target="_blank">http://wheelchair.org</a> .<br>
<br>
I always wonder why people start projects only locally.<br>
Are they not confident enough to use their idea on the whole world?<br>
<br>
> Anyway, OSM would be great because our data can probably be a useful<br>
> contribution. But how does it rate in terms of accessibility ?<br>
<br>
OSM is accessible for anyone except blind and visually impaired persons.<br>
Some things may not be accessible for persons who can not substitute mouse use in certain ways.<br>
<br>
We are working on Look and Listen Map (LALM) to make it accessible for blind persons.<br>
<br>
Just contact the people behind <a href="http://wheelchair.org" target="_blank">wheelchair.org</a> and do things together!<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Lulu-Ann<br>
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