[Accessibility] Getting Data on Wheelchair Accessible Routes

[Gregory]

Hi Gurpreet,

The answer all depends on a number of things.
* What is your skill background, i.e. are you a developer & how much time
you want to spend.
* What you count as a "wheelchair accessible route", do you just want no
stairs or do you want details such as drop-kerbs when crossing roads?
* If you want to get the routes as one-off results, or you want an
interface for people to request routes.
* What format you want the routes in, do you just want to display them or
do you need them to do some further analysis on?

The OSM API will just give you the raw data to use yourself. It would be
better for you to start by reading the Routing wiki page and work from
existing software or there are even APIs that will provide you with a route
between given points.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing

>From that page, I found there is already a German-based project for
wheelchair routing.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing

If you look at the OpenStreetMap data for your area, you will be able to
see what has been mapped and with what tags(attributes). Also, you can add
additional information you survey by using the same tags that are used
across the world. See the pages grouped by
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Walking_Disability

Gregory.
LivingWithDragons.com


On 21 December 2014 at 23:13, Gurpreet Kalra <grprtkal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am new to the OpenStreet Map community and am hoping you can guide me in
> the right direction.
>
> I am working on a project in which I need to find data on routes that are
> wheelchair accessible in San Francisco. For example, if I want to go from
> location x to location y, I would like to get data on the quickest path
> that is wheelchair accessible.  Is this data something I could extract
> using the OSM API? If yes, will it be an arduous task to extract the data?
>
> I have been googling and watching videos on the OSM API and have to admit
> that I am a bit overwhelmed.
>
> Thank you! Really appreciative of any help.
>
> Gurpreet
>
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Gregory
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