[Accessibility] looking for a platform for our initiative - is OSM the one ?

catherine ecrire at catherine-roy.net
Mon Feb 27 07:57:21 GMT 2012


Hi all,

I am collaborating with some people here in Montreal to build a tool 
that informs on the accessibility of public places. We have a first 
prototype up at www.montrealaccessible.ca, that was thrown together this 
week-end at a hackothon.

I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to maps and stuff, so 
apologies if some of this does not make sense, but I am told by the 
hackers that the data is stored in Google Fusion Tables. And we have a 
separate Google Spreadsheet that has a form that you can access from the 
site. Unfortunately, we couldn't get the spreadsheet to be automatically 
sent to the Fusion Table. So we would have to write a script to get that 
to happen.

We are looking around for the best platform for our initiative. We have 
been looking at Ushaidi and OSM. Our main concern of course is that 
whatever we end up choosing is usable by people with different types of 
disabilities so that they can contribute to data collection and also can 
consult the data through the interface. I have looked at your wiki and 
the section on accessibility. But unfortunately, it is rather ambiguous 
with regards to just how accessible some of the related initiatives are. 
Maybe I am not looking in the right place for this info...

Anyway, OSM would be great because our data can probably be a useful 
contribution. But how does it rate in terms of accessibility ?

Thanks,


Catherine

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Catherine Roy
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