<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>My name is Jess <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I am a member of the</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><a href="https://uwescience.github.io/DSSG2016-Sidewalks/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)">Global OpenSidewalks</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">team, part of this year's </span><a href="http://escience.washington.edu/data-science-for-social-good-projects/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">Data Science form Social Good</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> (DSSG) program sponsored by the eScience institute at the University of Washington.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">  </span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We have been working on an OSM standard for sidewalk representation and annotation which we plan to present at the State of the Map Conference, and would love to get some feedback from the OSM accessibility community.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Currently in OSM f<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">ootpaths in the built environment are typically treated as an addendum to streets. </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As a result, sidewalks in OSM have spotty coverage, an unintuitive implementation that makes user contribution difficult, and fail to serve many use cases, including the needs of people with limited mobility.</span>  Our project seeks to make pedestrian ways, particularly sidewalks, first class members of an open data transportation network.</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We also are proposing an OSM rendering layer for pedestrian ways. This layer would have similar properties to the OpenCycleMap layer but serves different use cases.  Born out of the AccessMap project </span></font><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(</span><a href="http://www.accessmapseattle.com/" style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.accessmapseattle.com/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">, we are particularly interested in accessibility and facilitating routing for people with limited mobility.</span></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Our OSM proposal can be found here:</span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sidewalk_schema" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)"> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sidewalk_schema</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> (this is still a work in progress) and project website here: </span><a href="https://uwescience.github.io/DSSG2016-Sidewalks/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)">https://uwescience.github.io/DSSG2016-Sidewalks/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px">Thanks! </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12.8px">Jess</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div align="left"><font size="1" color="#cccccc"><b>Jess Hamilton</b></font></div><div align="left"><font size="1" color="#cccccc">2017 MLA Candidate </font></div><div align="left"><font size="1" color="#cccccc">University of Washington<br>646.369.9015 </font></div></div></div></div>
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