holgerd

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   by holgerd 6y ago

   sure, please contact me and my team here: https://news.wheelmap.org/en/contact/
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   Thanks. Wheelmap is localized in 32 languages and has places mapped in 200 countries. :)
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   I spoke with onWheels a couple of years back. Great to see they want to open up their data. Will contact you separately.
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   We found that "mapping events" as we call it are a very suitable group activity with social distancing. The virtual event connects the people who go out separately to map the accessibility of places.
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   Yes, these contributions will show up on Wheelmap as well, thanks!
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   wheelchair-routing is a difficult, unsolved problem IMHO. Yes you can use a profile in Graphhopper and the Heidelberg University did a large project as well. When talking with wheelchair users I learnt that they often improvise on the route
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   Thanks for adding places! Yes, we plan to change the wording regarding toilets a little bit. When people add new places, we ask some more specific questions already. We also have > 100.000 photos of places, which are mostly entrances and
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   Some sources are open-licensed (which we provide right away when you use our API), and some only agreed to share with Wheelmap (for example Foursquare, HERE Maps, and others). We would love to see the license-compatible places in OSM as wel
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   by holgerd 6y ago

   Thanks. Wheelmap is really minimalisitic in the number of questions, and we often get asked to extend it. It's only after we worked with all the other sources which had more detail that we start to show these. It's more difficult
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    by holgerd 6y ago

    You are right. Thank you!
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    by holgerd 6y ago

    Co-founder of Wheelmap here. Great to see it mentioned! Wheelmap is 10 years old this year and has 1 Million places from OSM (and synced back) and 1.3 million places from ca 130 other sources which we aggregated as one API for others to us
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    by holgerd 7y ago

    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'
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    by holgerd 7y ago

    Thanks for the mention! Co-founder of Wheelmap here. Happy to see people here find it useful as well.
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    by holgerd 15y ago

    Great to see this happen in Berlin, finally. I'm in!