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 - the OpenSidewalks Schema - 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 Wiki.
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, OSM 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 organization on the OSM US Tasking Manager is used for coordinating contributions to OSM following OSW mapping guidelines and most OSW projects 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 directly to OSM.
- UW Amy Bordenave (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)
- UW Maddie (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)
- UW Sam Yasen (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)
- UW Cy R (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)
- UW Nik Wilson (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)
- UW Ryan Liu (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)
Training/instructions
Mapping guidance is provided in the tasking manager and in the OpenSidewalks schema.