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

[Raul Krauthausen]

Hi Catherine,

we're working for the same goal. Have you already seen "Wheelmap.org"?
That's our project for wheelchair-accessible places based on the
OpenStreetMap.

kind regards,
Raul
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:57, catherine <ecrire at catherine-roy.net> wrote:

> 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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