2. Hi, we are SOZIALHELDEN (“social heroes”)

3. What did we do? How did we do it? What did we learn?

4. What did we do? How did we do it? What did we learn?

5. Problem

6. Problem: Stairs at the entry or not?

7. wheelmap.org find wheelchair accessible places

8. Also good for other groups

9. Wheelmap is on all platforms
iOS
Android
Windows 10
Mobile Web

10. 22 Languages العربية български Danske Deutsch Ελληνικά English Español
Français
Magyar
Íslenska
Italiano 日本
한국어
Latviešu
Polski
Português do Brasil
Русский
Slovenčina
Svenska
tlhIngan Hol
Türkçe 中文

11. Including Klingon!
rutlhquS chawbogh Daq'e' Sam

12. Impact
>
places have been reviewed worldwide

13. Next: Accessibility info everywhere
“Accessibility Cloud”: Make Accessibility data shareable between different location based services and maps.
Supported by a grant from
Wherever you search for places, accessibility information should be there as well. You don’t even need to know about Wheelmap.
Geographic distribution of reviewed wheelmap-places

14. What did we do? How did we do it? What did we learn?

15. Crowdsourcing + Community
Data based on OpenStreetMap.org
which has 2mio users
78 Volunteer Translators
Many organized “Mapping Party” events

16. Bootstrapping Naive in the beginning
Started small with the help of friends and the community
PR: We told our story to the media
Grew organically

17. Funding Mix
Won awards
Received donations by private people and corporations
Got public grants
Offering paid services like workshops and consulting around the topic of inclusion

18. What did we do? How did we do it? What did we learn?

19. What did we learn? Build something people want
Don’t ask for permission, just do it
But also fight for your rights: We still demand accessibility for everyone!

20. What you can do:

21. Use Wheelmap inside your application
Open Data
API

22. Open data: Share place data you may have
Image: CC-BY

23. And go out and tag cafés and other places!