Organised Editing/Activities/OpenSidewalks

Rationale

OpenSidewalks (OSW) is an initiative led by the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT) at the University of Washington (UW).

OpenSidewalks seeks to provide a specification that is not only compatible with OpenStreetMap but is a comprehensive and accessibility-forward specification for mapping sidewalks and related pedestrian infrastructure features.

Additional details about this project can be found here on the TCAT website.

Contact

To contact TCAT regarding the OSW project, please reach out via email to OpenSidewalks@uw.edu.

Community consultation

The OpenSidewalks team is actively communicating with and working with the OpenStreetMap community via the mailing lists, community forum, wiki, OSM US Slack, and OSM World Discord server.

Hashtag

All OpenSidewalks-related changesets should include the #opensidewalks or #OpenSidewalks hashtag.

Timeframe

The OpenSidewalks project is ongoing.

Tools and data sources

The OpenSidewalks Tasking Manager and OSM US Tasking Manager are Tasking Manager instances used for coordinating contributions to OSM following OSW guidelines and are open to contributions from all OSM users.

Participants

In addition to the unaffiliated volunteer community contributors, TCAT employees (listed below) working on the OSW project also contribute to OSM.

Training/instructions

Mapping guidance is provided in the tasking manager and in the OpenSidewalks schema.

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