Dear All, A few additional suggestions, largely concerned with accessibility issues:
- *Step Counts*. Partly inspired by Richard Fairhurst, <https://twitter.com/richardf/status/803701578528124929> but also by my own needs. For many of us (parents, people with COPD (e.g., me, but I know other OSM contributors too) , older people, etc., etc.) steps are OK in small quantities, but beyond a certain number .which will vary with the person (and what they are carrying). it may well be desirable to avoid them. Current numbers of steps by region are as follows: East Midlands: 593 with steps 3429 without West Midlands: 51 with steps 1400 without Wales: 145 with steps 1672 without Scotland: 662 with steps 5373 without Northern Ireland: 9 with steps 263 without East of England: 1132 with steps 2741 without South-East England: 553 with steps 5072 without South-West England: 319 with steps 4730 without North-West England: 107 with steps 3191 without North-East England: 211 with steps 1287 without Yorkshire and the Humber: 262 with steps 2680 without Greater London: 252 with 4286 without I'm pretty sure we are missing masses of steps: we have mapped over 1000 in Nottingham City alone. However, finding them is another matter. So adding info to those already done is easier. Like many objects just a visit may elicit other things to map. This brings me to the next suggestion. - *Railway & Bus stations*. There are now excellent precedents for mapping public transport interchanges in a lot of detail (e.g., work done by the OpenRailwayMap team in Germany & the Transilien <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_France/Transilien#Gares>. In general the focus should be in adding information which helps with access. Adding this type of detail may provide opportunities to engage with facility owners & promoting open data strategies for improving information about access for people with restricted mobility. Additionally these provide a special domain for mappers to learn about Simple 3D buildings & indoor tagging. - *Disabled Parking Spaces*. I find the current method ( amenity=parking_space <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dparking_space>, disabled=yes) not entirely satisfactory, but this is what currently exists. Also capacity tags can be used, but don't show where disabled spaces are located in larger facilities. There may be some open data on this for some cities (e.g., Nottingham <http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/dataset.aspx?id=25>. Most spaces will be in town/city centres and public & customer car parks. Of course these could be lumped together as a general "access for restricted mobility" quarterly project, but I think the area is so large that it's better to focus on smaller targets. Regards, Jerry
_______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
