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

[Florian LAINEZ]

Hello Catherine,
Congratulation for your project, it seems very good ! The french OSM
community tries to collect such data. We already organised specific mapping
parties all over the country. I think you speak french so have a look to
this page : http://wiki.april.org/w/Mapping_Party_Accessibilit%C3%A9

In France, there is an association, *J'accède, *that set up such a similar
initiative : http://www.jaccede.com/accessible-places/
Unfortunatly they use Gmap and there data are proprietary, but since I
contacted them, they are planning to switch to OSM. They already have
contacted the Wheelmap team.

I think you should get in contact with *J'accède*, I just sent your message
to the technical responsible of the association.
yours

2012/2/28 Guttorm Flatabø <gfl at vestforsk.no>

> I think Lulu-Ann meant wheelmap.org, and I'd like to join her encouraging
> you to join them.
>  On 28. feb. 2012 17:14, <Lulu-Ann at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello Catherine!
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Nice to hear that you are working on such a project.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Well, google maps is not really our topic here, but it should be easy to
>> add some buttons to swap the map in the background to OSM.
>> Happy you found your way to this list.
>>
>> > 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...
>>
>> Best start for a project is always to do some searching for existing
>> projects.
>> There's http://wheelchair.org .
>>
>> I always wonder why people start projects only locally.
>> Are they not confident enough to use their idea on the whole world?
>>
>> > Anyway, OSM would be great because our data can probably be a useful
>> > contribution. But how does it rate in terms of accessibility ?
>>
>> OSM is accessible for anyone except blind and visually impaired persons.
>> Some things may not be accessible for persons who can not substitute
>> mouse use in certain ways.
>>
>> We are working on Look and Listen Map (LALM) to make it accessible for
>> blind persons.
>>
>> Just contact the people behind wheelchair.org and do things together!
>>
>> Best regards
>> Lulu-Ann
>>
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