[Talk-us] Footway tagging

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 1:30 PM Michael Sidoric via Talk-us <
talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

>
> Another consideration is accessibility.
> Not taking sides but besides aesthetics and nomenclature seems there needs
> to be some way for routing and tags to reflect whether a route is ‘safe’ or
> accessible.
>
> I map for several blind friends and many paths have unexpected (and
> dangerous) overhead hazards that a cane cannot detect.
>

wheelchair=* is documented and in wide use.  Something similar for vision
impaired tagging might be useful.

Building a router for the blind would have to look at surface, height,
obstacles, tactile_pad, steps, kerbs, etc. to create a "safe" route.

Best,
Clifford

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