Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Mobility Stockport

2019-01-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
+1 for wiki documentation. I am making efforts to bring the United Kingdom areas of the wiki up-to-date. I propose an "Accessibility in the United Kingdom" page, and I will encourage ODI Manchester to make updating it one of their project outcomes. A common OSM-wide page would be nice, but throws

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Mobility Stockport

2019-01-09 Thread Warin
On 10/01/19 07:17, Andy Townsend wrote: On 09/01/2019 18:11, Jez Nicholson wrote: Seeking your input... One thing that struck me when I had to start planning for getting from A to B with someone on a mobility scooter or in a wheelchair was that the "obvious" things (kerbs etc.) weren't the

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Mobility Stockport

2019-01-09 Thread Neil Matthews
Bath Hacked (on meetup) might be useful to contact -- they organised a round-table to consider main issues for accessibility in Bath, e.g. https://www.meetup.com/Bath-Hacked/events/237213318/ before several sesssions surveying and adding items to Openwheelmap. Cheers, Neil

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapping Mobility Stockport

2019-01-09 Thread SK53
Hi Jez, These things are much talked about in OSM, but relatively rarely moved to a point of real usability. I went to a really interesting talk at SotM-10 with lots of good ideas, but years later when I looked at their target city there was nary a trace of actual mapping. Even for step counts

[Talk-GB] Mapping Mobility Stockport

2019-01-09 Thread Jez Nicholson
Seeking your input... I'm talking with Open Data Institute (ODI) Manchester about their "Mapping Mobility Stockport" project which won some funding in a competition to encourage interaction between public bodies and Open Data bodies (such as OSM). They are "crowdsourcing and creating an