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 I'm not aware of any applications which do reduced-step as opposed to step-free routing (unless Richard does something in cycle.travel where a flight of 10 steps may be acceptable compared with a kilometre detour). Part of the problem here is that often the precise number of steps which are acceptable will depend on each individual. However, mapping step counts is easy, everyone is likely to come to a similar result. Off the top of my head things which should be relatively easy to capture and fit in OSM : - Steps & step counts on stairs . Either map individual flights of stairs separately or include some indication of how many steps there are on each flight. If one has to use stairs, the ability to take a breather can mean that 2 flights of 20 steps are easier than 1 of 30. - Presence of handrails on stairs - Atypical steps (e.g., a footpath with 1 or 2 steps every 20 metres or so; or ones where the individual treads are long (came across one of these at Birkenhead Park station & there's no lift). - Steeper inclines on footways/pedestrianised streets - Dropped kerbs (it's actually quite hard to identify properly flush ones, and hitting something which is just slightly proud of the line can jolt a wheelchair) - Refuge islands for pedestrian crossings - Unmarked crossings (often identified by dropped kerbs and perhaps a refuge) - Wheelchair access to amenities & shops (best done by a wheelchair user, but could be done with a tape measure for all entrances which are not flush). Also it's quite likely that dedicated wheelchair ramps may not have been mapped in the first pass. Do amenities/shops which have a step to gain entrance have a) a ramp or b) an alternative means of egress. Asking about this could be a good way to tell them about simple metal/fibre-glass movable ramps. - Pedestrian safety barriers (as these may restrict viable places to cross roads (not important if one solely allows ped. crossings for routing). - Lifts in shopping centres & other locations (e.g, railway stations). - Seating at bus stops At some stage the issue of whether to map pavements (sidewalks) separately will arise. If pavements are to be mapped separately they need to be done systematically in any one area : incomplete mapping can cause problems with many existing applications, particularly those which do routing (e.g., Traveline SouthEast). This may be a suitable case for using something like Tasking Manager: I can set up a project if needed as I have kindly been given rights to do on the instance supported by the Swiss OSM community. I've spent about 3 hours in total mapping the town centre of Stockport in 2015 and 2016, so I have a bit of local knowledge. I've also mapped stuff along the A516 to the Tameside boundary, but not really elsewhere in the Borough. As elsewhere in NW England it is not mapped as intensively as other places. It certainly has plenty of steps, steep pedestrian routes right in the middle of the town. A cursory check suggests that improving the mapping of railway stations would probably be useful, for instance the current mapping of Brinnington doesn't accord with the statement that it is not accessible on this forum <https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/greater-manchester-wheelchair-access-at-stations.156665/> . I probably have a couple of hundred photos, but Bing StreetSide is available for the area (albeit 2012) and shows enough detail to be useful as here <https://binged.it/2LYzEvO> with the steps up from Little Underbank towards the Market. Capturing more recent imagery for Mapillary would also certainly help. The town centre is not so big as to be unmanageable. I don't have any idea of that status of other local centres. One project which is worth mentioning is OpenSidewalks <https://www.opensidewalks.com/>, which had some impact in the US. I don't know what it's current status might be. Jerry On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 18:12, Jez Nicholson <jez.nichol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 accessibility map of Stockport, > working with disability action groups and Age UK." > > They will be running workshops with different groups of people getting > them out mapping. Data created will 1) be added to Stockport Council’s GIS > map and to help inform them of problems, 2) be added to OSM....although > they are keen to use OSM as the primary datastore then extract stuff for > use by the Council, and not vice versa. They will mostly be using existing > tools. > > I believe that some mobility things are suited for inclusion in OSM, e.g. > number of steps in a flight (from a chat I had with SK53), or wheelchair > accessibility of shops (maybe using WheelMap). > > Some things like uneven paving stones might be better suited to > FixMyStreet, but that could be used as well. > > So far I've suggested using a combination of OSM ID Editor, WheelMap, and > FixMyStreet. What other tools or information on the web are there to > consider? Any specific mobility things to map (on OSM or other > tools/sites)? Is there an "accessibility render" anywhere? > > Regards, > Jez > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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