Re: Facility Wayfinding

Hi Peter,

Examples how indoor accessibility is currently represented in data:

- The biggest open data set for information like this is OpenStreetMap. It supports tagging for indoor navigation, for example with its ’Simple Indoor Tagging’ scheme [1]. So UCLA could tag its data using OSM and try out tech like OpenPlanner [2] or others [3].
- For public transit, indoor mapping can be done using the GTFS Pathways extension [4]. For end users, GTFS pathways data is supported in Google Maps, while Apple has IMDF, its own proprietary indoor mapping format [5]. Both have rudimentary support for accessibility-relevant features.
- as community group, we strive towards a community-built standard to describe accessibility-relevant features of physical objects in detail. This data could then be mixed into other datasets, e.g. for routing engines [5]. We built A11yJSON for this [6], but there is no similar Linked Data vocabulary yet. Feel free to participate, e.g. in this GitHub issue! [7]
- Have a look around for similar projects - some of the people behind them are also on this list :) [8]

I hope this helps you to get started!

Cheers,
Sebastian Felix

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_Indoor_Tagging
[2] https://openplanner.team
[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing
[4] https://github.com/google/transit/issues/108
[5] https://register.apple.com/resources/imdf/
[6] https://a11yjson.org
[7] https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254
[8] https://accessiblemaps.de/?page_id=121&lang=en

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Sebastian Felix Zappe
Tech Lead
SOZIALHELDEN e.V., Andreasstr. 10, 10243 Berlin, Germany