[Accessibility] Accessibility Digest, Vol 50, Issue 2

[Jess Hamilton]

Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response.  We have added your incline:across tag to our
recommended core features, and linked to your work in the related proposals.

Charles,
Thanks for the support.  Is the discussion you mentioned part of a public
forum that we might be able to link to?

Best,
Jess

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>    1. Re: sidewalk scheme & layer for accessible routing
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:51:36 -0400
> From: Charles Basenga Kiyanda <personal at charleskiyanda.com>
> To: Accessibility <accessibility at openstreetmap.org>,
>         montreal at listes.osmqc.ca
> Subject: Re: [Accessibility] sidewalk scheme & layer for accessible
>         routing
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> That is great news. We (openstreetmap montréal) worked with a prof at
> Concordia University (www.concordia.ca) on a class project for one of
> his graduate courses in geography. Students gathered data, made
> modifications to OSM and did some rendering after that, specifically
> with accessibility in mind. They elected to use a "sidewalk distinct
> from street" model since it gives more flexibility to represent all
> topologies (at least with less kludging) than the "sidewalk as street
> attribute" model.
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> We now have a region of downtown Montréal that has both representations
> next to each other, so there's a discusison we'll need to have here
> about where we go. Your proposal will surely be part of that discussion.
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.49665/-73.57815
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> Personally, I prefer to represent sidewalks distinctly, so you'll have
> my vote.
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> Cheers
>
> Charles
>
> On 07/06/2016 02:02 PM, Jess Hamilton wrote:
> > 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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