[Accessibility] Accessible Play Equipment

[king antony]

Well that was vastly easier than expected. There are 8 (yes, eight)
playgrounds with 'note' fields in england, of which 4 describe what is
there:

    <tag k="note" v="little climbing wall and assault course for kids"/>
    <tag k="note" v="... if a single slide counds as a playground..."/>
    <tag k="note" v="swing for disabled children"/>
    <tag k="note" v="adventure playground"/>

One of those is my local park :-)

The description field is even less used:

ant at samhain:~/development/openstreetmap$ grep description playgrounds.osm
    <tag k="description" v="play area of under fives"/>
    <tag k="description" v="Indoor"/>
    <tag k="description" v="Playground and 5-aside pitch"/>

So, nothing /at all/ to go on, so we're starting with a clean slate.

There are 1804 playgrounds in total in england in the current XML export.

A very small number of records use tags like dog=no , bicycle=no,
bottles=no etc.

138 are named with a 'name' tag. 5 have 'operator' - eg, the name of a
school or council, and 2 hardy souls have identified a phone number!

I'll have a ponder about tags this week (and would invite others to do
so too!) - personally, I would like to be able to determine what
common play equipment exists on a site, so locally for example we have
2 standard swings, 1 baby swing, one inclusive swing, a climbing
frame, a springy and something that would definitely come under
'other'. I guess most items would have sub-categories to describe the
age and/or ability; however if we try to put in too much detail per
item of play equipment we'll need separate nodes for each item - which
then would need tying back to the actual playground somehow - yuck.

Antony.


On 15 March 2010 22:25, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> You are right that machine parsable tags are better. What I meant by
> mentioning it is that the existing data in description may include
> information that is useful for new tags we decide on. It's a big job to go
> through them all, and not one that I would choose to do, but if your
> browsing the map you can pop into the data layer and check a park or two.
> It's also possible that a specialised render might choose to display the
> description when the park is clicked on.
>
> For working on a tagging scheme it will be useful to know what is out there,
> so the information your wife gets will be somewhat helpful (and hopefully a
> lot helpful). I would divide what you think about into two categories:
> 1) The playground: an area tagged with leisure=playground. Is the whole
> place especially for certain needs, and how do we tag those? Is it a public
> playground, private belonging to some organisation/building, or public but
> only for those who need it (access=restricted?)?
> 2) The equipment: nodes within the playground area. The playground might be
> mixed use but have some equipment that meets special needs. It may reuse
> some tags that can be used on the area. What specifically is the
> equipment(not an accessibility question)? step=no? What needs is it useful
> for?
>
>
> --
> Gregory
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