[Accessibility] Accessibility Digest, Vol 50, Issue 2

Fri Jul 8 17:49:03 UTC 2016

Thanks. 
Greatly admire your proposal. Our interests align with your intents as sidewalks and pedestrian ways are critical for accessibility for all people - especially low vision and blind users.  Please feel free to call anytime at 512-839-1996 or tejasfilms on skype.  We are proposing that precise routing become an ADA mandate and we are working with NFB Texas to push that forward.  
Regards from Austin

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> On Jul 8, 2016, at 12:24, Jess Hamilton <jesshami at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>       (Charles Basenga Kiyanda)
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>> Message: 1
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <577E6C78.40102 at charleskiyanda.com>
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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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.49665/-73.57815
>> 
>> Personally, I prefer to represent sidewalks distinctly, so you'll have
>> my vote.
>> 
>> 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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