+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 up issues of gaining worldwide consensus. On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 23:56 Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 biggest issue - it was > > things like the exact location of the shopmobility office (which level > > of the car park and exactly where on that level?) and gates that > > weren't mobility-scooter accessible not because they weren't wide > > enough but because the angle you'd have to turn through was impossible > > (I've still no idea how to map that). > > Umm I'd try 'wheelchair=no' on the way. Presumably a wheel chair would > have similar difficulty there. > > > > I'd actually start by asking potential users in Stockport "so what do > > you want to see on a map?". I bet a whole pile of requests will come > > in that aren't covered by any OSM map. > > > > With regard to "what shows this" > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wheelchair#Rendering (which > > you've probably already looked at) has a couple of suggestions. I'm > > sure that there are others though, even features of non-"accessibility > > sprecific" renderings such as the "shopmobility parsing" that I added > > to > > > https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=20&lat=53.4955228&lon=-2.514984 > > when I found it personally useful. > > I am thinking about making a new wiki page for mappers on tags available > for disability/accessibility things. Presently there is no common page > for them, something similar to; > > the format of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway > > and tagging on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Handicaps/R%C3%A9f%C3%A9rentiel > > Yet to get off my bum and do some more research on it, the above will > give me some more to do, thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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