[Accessibility] sidewalk scheme & layer for accessible routing

[Jess Hamilton]

Hi,

My name is Jess I am a member of the Global OpenSidewalks
<https://uwescience.github.io/DSSG2016-Sidewalks/> team, part of this
year's Data Science form Social Good
<http://escience.washington.edu/data-science-for-social-good-projects/> (DSSG)
program sponsored by the eScience institute at the University of Washington.

We have been working on an OSM standard for sidewalk representation and
annotation which we plan to present at the State of the Map Conference, and
would love to get some feedback from the OSM accessibility community.

Currently in OSM footpaths in the built environment are typically treated
as an addendum to streets. As a result, sidewalks in OSM have spotty
coverage, an unintuitive implementation that makes user contribution
difficult, and fail to serve many use cases, including the needs of people
with limited mobility.  Our project seeks to make pedestrian ways,
particularly sidewalks, first class members of an open data transportation
network.

We also are proposing an OSM rendering layer for pedestrian ways. This
layer would have similar properties to the OpenCycleMap layer but serves
different use cases.  Born out of the AccessMap project (
http://www.accessmapseattle.com/), we are particularly interested
in accessibility and facilitating routing for people with limited mobility.

Our OSM proposal can be found here:
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sidewalk_schema
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/sidewalk_schema> (this
is still a work in progress) and project website here:
https://uwescience.github.io/DSSG2016-Sidewalks/


Thanks!
Jess

-- 
*Jess Hamilton*
2017 MLA Candidate
University of Washington
646.369.9015
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