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Wheelmap.org is an online map for finding and marking wheelchair accessible places. A simple traffic light system marks publicly accessible places that are barrier-free and it can be indicated whether a wheelchair-accessible toilet is available. This information should make it easier for people with reduced mobility to plan their day better and thus to be more independent and easier to participate in everyday life.
Wheelmap.org is a project of the Sozialhelden eV, which collects information about wheelchair accessible places and makes it publicly accessible. It was started in 2010 by Raul Krauthausen and is now the largest platform of its kind on the World Wide Web . The map material from Wheelmap.org comes from the OpenStreetMap project.
Data
Wheelmap.org is a community project that anyone can contribute to. All data on the card is collected through crowdsourcing , i. H. the users of the map can add information to a place on the map or create a new place on the map. Places already entered can be marked without registration. To create new locations and to change location details (e.g. address or phone number), users must log in. In addition, registered users can add pictures of a location and write a comment with further details about the wheelchair accessibility of the location (e.g. “Store has a ramp”).
Since the start of the project in 2010, the Wheelmap has recorded over 750,000 marked locations worldwide, with around 300 new markings added every day. About two thirds of the marked locations are in Germany. The Wheelmap has been translated into 22 languages so far, further translations are to follow.
Traffic light system
On Wheelmap.org, every visitor can enter places or mark existing ones without having to register. One year after the start, 75,000 locations are already marked in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Publicly accessible places such as restaurants, hotels, cinemas, supermarkets, banks or shops are marked on Wheelmap.org according to a traffic light system according to their accessibility for wheelchair users:
Green: entrance and all rooms accessible without steps
Yellow: Entrance no more than one step (7 cm high), the most important rooms accessible without steps
Red: Entrance has higher or more steps, rooms are not accessible
Places where wheelchair access is unknown have a gray marking and can be marked as green, yellow or red by anyone.
In addition, the toilet status can be used to indicate whether a wheelchair-accessible toilet is available or not:
Wheelchair-accessible toilet: passage width of the door at least 90 cm, movement area at least 150 × 150 cm
Non wheelchair accessible toilet: No wheelchair accessible toilet available
Mobile access
In addition to the regular website, there are apps for Apple iOS , Android and Windows Phone . These offer the possibility, for example, of only displaying fully wheelchair-accessible locations of a certain category (restaurant, credit institute, authorities, etc.) or with wheelchair-accessible toilets in the area, as well as marking and editing locations and uploading photos of locations.
Co-projects and collaborations
Barrier-free architecture
Since numerous new buildings are still not planned and erected barrier-free, Raul Krauthausen and the Düsseldorf architect André Burkhardt, who has specialized in barrier-free construction with his office , developed a series of lectures for architecture lectures at universities. The aim of the project funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is to make architecture students aware of the need for barrier-free access during their training and to inform them about the basics. A lecture at the HafenCity University Hamburg was recorded in a video series and published under a CC license for information for other students and interested parties. The slides for the lecture are available for viewing on the project's website.
Checklist for barrier-free accessibility for people with reduced mobility
In cooperation with the architect André Burkhardt, Wheelmap.org has also drawn up a “Barrier-free accessibility checklist for people with reduced mobility”. The list gives a rough overview of the most important structural requirements that enable people with mobility impairments to have as barrier-free access as possible and as barrier-free usability of buildings as possible (in accordance with the currently applicable "DIN 18040: Barrier-free building - planning principles - Part 1: Publicly accessible buildings") .
A thousand and one ramps
Together with the crowdinvestment platform Bergfürst, the donation project “Thousand and One Ramps” was launched on December 3, 2012. The aim of the project was to collect donations to provide folding ramps for cafes, restaurants and other shops free of charge. The collection of donations, which received prominent support from Christoph Metzelder , Inka Bause and Udo Walz , among others , achieved funds for 200 ramps by January 18, 2013. The social heroes decided on the distribution of the ramps from among all suggestions that each user can make.
On December 12, 2013, a new fundraising campaign was started under the same patrons, and Samuel Koch is now also supporting the fundraising campaign.
Wheelmap goes to school
In cooperation with educators, the project operators have created teaching materials for schools. The aim of the project is to make schoolchildren aware of barriers and to teach them the need for accessibility in practice . For this purpose, the operators provide free teaching material for different learning units, which are also intended to impart additional skills such as writing articles and statistics based on the framework curriculum . To kick off the project, the operators organized a day of action together with the Sophie-Scholl-Schule Berlin: the 700 pupils checked their city under the guidance of representatives of the SOZIALHELDEN eV in different groups for accessibility. Alternately, they were allowed to experience movement in a wheelchair in a self-experiment, measure steps and ramps in front of shops and facilities and evaluate the results in order to process them for the Wheelmap.
Wheely on tour
At a destination or on the way there, people who are on the move with or on wheels (such as with prams , wheelchairs, walkers ) often encounter obstacles that exclude them from a number of activities.
Wheely is a small wheelchair user (like Lego) based on the figure in the Wheelmap logo. He travels around and whenever he hits a barrier he is photographed. The project was developed in order to identify barriers from the perspective of wheelchair users and to bring them to the awareness of the population by means of photo documentation.
MapMyDay.org
In cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), the SOZIALHELDEN eV organized an international mapping day on December 3, 2015 under the campaign name MapMyDay.org . People around the world were called on to mark places on this day with regard to their wheelchair accessibility. The campaign was one of several worldwide actions on the occasion of the International Day of People with Disabilities . The aim was to collect data and to make people aware of accessibility. At the end of the multi-day campaign, over 20,000 new locations had been marked.
Prizes and awards
Since the start of the Wheelmap, the social heroes have been awarded several prizes for the project. A detailed list can be found in the article on social heroes .
Trivia
In autumn 2011, Wheelmap.org was the subject of a Google Inc. commercial for the Chrome browser that was broadcast on German television.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SOCIAL HEROES e. V. mit Wheelmap.org - social crowdsourced open data map for wheelchair accessible places. Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Official counter of the project. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Background and facts. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013 ; Retrieved March 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Patrick Beuth: We are all disabled - at some point. In: Zeit Online . September 22, 2011, accessed March 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Wheelmap celebrates 75,000 marked locations. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011 ; Retrieved October 13, 2011 .
- ↑ Wheelmap: Interactive map portal for wheelchair users. In: netzwelt . October 9, 2011, accessed March 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Lecture series on barrier-free building. In: YouTube . Retrieved January 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Introduction to barrier-free architecture. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013 ; accessed on January 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Checklist for barrier-free accessibility for people with restricted mobility. (PDF; 288 kB) Archived from the original on May 11, 2015 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ How the idea for a thousand and one ramps came about
- ↑ "You have to give people with disabilities the same opportunities as others have them." December 21, 2012, accessed March 12, 2013 .
- ↑ [http://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/11534-tausendundeine-rampe-fur-deutschland/new news about a thousand and one ramps] (link not available)
- ↑ 200 ramps for Raul and the social heroes. Retrieved March 12, 2013 .
- ↑ A thousand and one ramps continues! Retrieved December 13, 2013 .
- ^ Facebook page from Wheelmap.org. Retrieved December 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Wheelmap goes to school. Archived from the original on November 20, 2013 ; Retrieved November 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Accessibility: Where wheelchair users can travel freely. In: BZ Berlin . Retrieved November 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Wheely on Tour ( Memento of 5 October 2014 Internet Archive ), Accessed on September 18, 2014
- ↑ MapMyDay: Global campaign by social heroes and WHO for more awareness of barriers in everyday life. In: OpenPR.de . Retrieved November 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Google Chrome: Wheelmap.org. In: YouTube . Archived from the original on September 27, 2011 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 .