Name of the Organisation | SOZIALHELDEN e.V. |
Target group addressed | People with kinetic disabilities |
How can the GP be replicated? | Any tourism professional or business from around the world can enter their information on the map thus promoting accessible travel |
How does it contribute to SMART II? | It provides a large database of accessible places for people with disabilities following the user friendliness of google maps example |
How can it be transferred? | The database and user friendliness of the tool can inspire other companies on utilising existing digital tools (such as google maps) for the promotion of accessible destinations |
Short description | A user-friendly mobile app and website showcasing accessible locations for people with kinetic disabilities. |
Long description | Wheelmap is the map for wheelchair accessible places. Anyone can easily find places, enter them to the map and rate them using a traffic light system – worldwide and free of charge. Information on over 3.2 million public places is currently available. More than 300 new entries are added every day. Since 2010, the map has been helping wheelchair users and people with other mobility impairments to plan their day more effectively. It is now available in 33 languages. The map was developed in Open Data, among others they cooperate with OpenStreetMap. All collected information is also available as a free dataset on their accesibility.cloud platform.
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Country | Worldwide |
Source | https://wheelmap.org/ |
Link to more information (organisation website) if applicable | https://news.wheelmap.org/en/imprint/ |
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Project number: 2023-2-ES01-KA210-VET-000184968