[Accessibility] english: actual state of project Data from city map for barrier free mobility in augsburg, germany, was prevously: Daten aus Stadtplan für barrierefreie Mobilität aus Augsburg

Tue Jul 20 08:03:36 BST 2010

Hello Dietmar,

we are running a similar project in a small town in Italy.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

We would be happy to give our contribution toward definition of styles and
procedures.

Cheers

Simone

[1]
http://www.comune.castelfiorentino.fi.it/castelfiorentino/dati/urp/files/zip/20100707085817_184_13903_15.zip
[2]
http://www.slideshare.net/geologyx/sotm-2010-mapping-accessibility-in-castelfiorentino-italy

2010/7/20 Dietmar <ostrmap at diesei.de>

>  Hello list-member,
>
> i want to inform you a litte bit about the project, because the orginally
> osm wiki page [1] is only in german available.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The collected following data (each as different technical layers in the
> gis) (sorry for unknown/bad english words in following):
> * 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)
> * traffic signals for pedestrians, including kind of signals, buttons with
> tactile and/or acustic sound for blind persons,
> * footways and living streets without footways (some old small streets) as
> areas with the information about surface and smoothness (some nice details
> ;) )
> * amenities from public offices, tourism buildings and points, other
> amenities like schools and churches with a lot details about accessibilty
> (see below)
> * 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
> * tram and bus stops (with no relevant information) for the users in
> wheelchairs and walker/zimmer.
> * inclination of (foot)ways as areas. messurement in degrees.
> * transferse inclination as areas. Most times, reason is a sloped curb oder
> a bad builded footway.
> * standard parking areas (multi-storey, underground) with or without
> capacity for disabled persons and single special parking areas for disabled
> persons only.
> * 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
> * benches
> * steps on ways
> * taxi stops
> * public telephones
> * public and semi-public toilets, which can be used with wheelchairs
> * 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.
> * 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
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> My actual todos are:
> * integration of some layers (steps are not useable at all, because they
> have not correct position)
> * waiting for a further data source: i can get the public buildings with
> city person contacts as polygons in a short time
> * 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.
> * 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.
> * waiting for last questions about interpreting some detailes of the
> project data by university.
>
> Next steps:
> * give the signal to the project members and demonstrate the kind of
> integration in openstreetmap
> * get the go signals for rest of data import
> * 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.
>
> 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.
>
> In the next days, i have to include the link to the osm wiki page
> accessibilty, i forgot in the past.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Dietmar
> aka okilimu at openstreetmap
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Augsburg/Datenspende_Stadtplan_für_barrierefreie_Mobilität<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Augsburg/Datenspende_Stadtplan_f%C3%BCr_barrierefreie_Mobilit%C3%A4t>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> *Von:* accessibility-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:
> accessibility-bounces at openstreetmap.org]*Im Auftrag von* Gianfranco
> Gliozzo
> *Gesendet am:* Samstag, 26. Juni 2010 00:44
> *An:* accessibility at openstreetmap.org
> *Betreff:* Re: [Accessibility] Daten aus Stadtplan für barrierefreie
> Mobilität aus Augsburg
> Thank you for your abstract.
>
> Looks very interesting, please report us your experience the way we can all
> participate.
>
> Gianfranco
>
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