[Accessibility] choosing and extending tags

[Nick Bolten]

Looks great! Would be happy to talk about working together with
AccessMap/OpenSidewalks (both projects consume and contribute OSM data) as
well and getting this kind of data into OSM, assuming community support!
I'd also be happy to have a discussion about the accessibility aspect of
these filters and when it is practical to directly map accessibility info
(e.g. wheelchair=yes on a building entrance) and when it can, more ideally,
be interpreted from physical descriptions (e.g. mapping the width of a
narrow path rather than adding wheelchair=no). I think most (all?) of your
filters are about physical things, but it never hurts to chat!

Some of the filter attributes are already tags in one way or another (like
aspects of accessible parking:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:footway%3Daccess_aisle), but I
would not be surprised if it's isn't always clear how to use them
"correctly" for your purposes. This could be a good opportunity to research
what tags are in use, how they're used, and record your results as
documentation (improving the wiki, e.g.). And, of course, if there are no
good existing tagging schemas, to propose new ones.

Maybe a good starting place for collaboration would be for you to create a
collaborative, public document for the tagging aspect of your project (on
the wiki or somewhere else if that's not appropriate). Would be happy to
give feedback and/or assist in tying it together with pedestrian ways.

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 7:15 AM parker, anson D (adp6j) <anson at virginia.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all -
> I have some friends here in town who are building a website aimed at
> helping individuals who use wheelchairs find restaurants and other spaces
>
> they are creating a set of filters for various accessibility features
>
> see the left hand side of this page for an example
>
>
> https://staging.bluetrunk.org/businesses/search?keyword=&destinationId=1&limit=5
>
> is there any reason all of these filters can't be added as tags in open
> street map?  are some of these tags already canonical?
>
> i can't think of any reason why this entire "site" couldn't just be a
> series of OSM queries..  then integrate with something like open routing or
> accessmap.io or ....
>
>  a  sorry if this is a bit off-topic, it's a nice group of folks and i
> just want to help them be more impactful... and i feel like if they focused
> on adding content to OSM and doing advocacy they'd be in a better place?
>
> bit of a rant there, thanks for any thoughts
> anson
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