[Accessibility] OSM and accessibility for walking impaired and people with temporary or permanent reduced mobility

[Lulu-Ann]

Simone Gadenz wrote:

> As me and my colleagues to manage a participatory mapping process on
> accessibility for wheelchairs and persons with reduced mobility. It is
> set in a small town in the middle of Tuscany (around 20000 citizens),
> We would be interested in sharing ideas, experiences, guidelines and
> best practices with other users and participants to similar projects.
> 
> The whole participatory mapping process will be using OSM as base map
> for which we are the main contributors for the area of interest
> ( http://osm.org/go/xX6gpfyw-- )  but we would like to adopt OSM
> infrastructure also for collaboratively mapping the accessibility and
> sharing the results. 
> 
> Should any of you being interested in opening a discussion, giving
> suggestions or advising, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Hello Simone,

there is a project called "wheelmap" in Germany and another one called 
"Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing".
You'll find links to these projects if you follow the OSM category
called "Disabilities" or the wiki page "accessibility".

For Wheelmap contact Raul Krauthausen, for Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing
contact OSM user "Astrid".

Make sure to use only agreed tags - there are some unagreed proposals
for the wheelchair tag that won't work, see my comments on the talk
page.

Regards
Lulu-Ann