[OSM-talk] OSM and accessibility for walking impaired and people with temporary or permanent reduced mobility

[simone gadenz]

Hi all.

as me and my colleagues to manage a participatory mapping process on accessibility for wheelchairs and persons with reduced mobility. It is set in a small town in the middle of Tuscany (around 20000 citizens), We would be interested in sharing ideas, experiences, guidelines and best practices with other users and participants to similar project.

The whole participatory mapping process will be using OSM as base map for which we are the main contributors for the area of interest ( http://osm.org/go/xX6gpfyw-- )  but we would like to adopt OSM infrastructure also for collaboratively mapping the accessibility and sharing the results. 

From a preliminary search on the OSM wiki and Google there are some related projects within the OSM community but still it seems there is no any working group or structured initiatives on these topics. Am i right or I did a careless search? Anybody interested in opening a discussion to identify a set of common guidelines for the OSM community? 

Should any of you being interested in opening a discussion, giving suggestions or advising, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Cheers


Simone