Holger Dieterich — @holgerd
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- http://wheelmap.org — find wheelchair accessible places to eat & drink
- Made by http://sozialhelden.de — Social Heroes
- one of the founders is in a wheelchair
- problem is not how to get somewhere, but how to find somewhere suitable
- is there a step? is the toilet accessible?
- databases in Germany have 30,000 places, but they’re not so easy to use (mostly commercial)
- had a wheelchair tag in OpenStreetMap before they started, but only about 5,000 places were tagged
- now have about 18,000 places in germany
- 300-400 places edited a day!
- website finds your location by IP and offers you places to edit/add
- also an iPhone app
- using OpenLayers to display
- CloudMade is good, but is read-only and not updated regularly (once a month!)
- want to have immediate update
- don’t yet have immediate, but 3 minutes is close
- OpenStreetMap itself is sometimes down (for three days at one point), so had to implement caching and their own intermediate API
- also approaching companies to share their data…
- they’re really scared… so talking with Berlin government to convince them
- having slight issues with OSM community as wheelmap data is added anonymously by a pseudonymous user
- but it’s better that data gets added
- and there’s no real chance of spam since the data is added automatically
1 comment:
Nice summaries. Thanks for this. May be you could put these up on lanyrd as well?
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