How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with Disabilities

Re:How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with... by TASMebWdhWc9NeA on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:15AM (#20916150)

There is (was?) a similar project in Germany based on OpenStreetMap: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Rollstuhlfahrer-Routi...

The idea was awesome: make the routing algorithm take steps and other impediments into consideration for wheelchair drivers.

I don't know how far they came, but when I read about it I thought that OpenStreetMap is the perfect tool for this.

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Re:How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People with... by holgerd on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:26PM (#20920856)

This has a wheelchair routing profile (implemented by some folks at the Heidelberg University): https://maps.openrouteservice.org

Would love to evolve this and integrate it into https://wheelmap.org one day!

It's also based on OpenStreetMap, but I am not sure how good the coverage of pavement quality and curb cuts are in diffewrent parts of the world.

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