Project Sidewalk
@projsidewalk
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Our mission: map and assess the world's sidewalks using remote crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence, and online satellite & streetscape imagery
Seattle, WA
Joined June 2016
📢 Huge milestone reached! Project Sidewalk now has over **ONE MILLION** sidewalk accessibility labels (1,163,413 labels to be exact) across 21,368 km of city streets. 🎉🥳🎈🎊
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To celebrate and help others build on our work, we have posted a sidewalk feature/barrier annotation dataset to Hugging Face:
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How well do crowdsourcing assessments of sidewalks compare with government data? Find out in our new Journal of Urban Science paper: Validating Pedestrian Infrastructure Data: How Well Do Street-View Imagery Audits Compare to Government Field Data?.
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RT @jdasign: In honor of Danville native, Gene Hackman's passing at 95 yrs - working on his childhood home section in @projsidewalk. #GeneH….
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RT @SciStarter: This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let's honor his legacy through service. We're giving back by participating in #CitizenScie….
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📢 Do you use disability parking? We're conducting an interview study to better understand opportunities & challenges with disability parking & the role of emerging technology therein. Interested? Fill out this screener:.🔗 💸 $25/hr compensation
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We are too! Thanks to you and the Active Transporation Alliance! 💜.
I am super jazzed about our new partnership with @projsidewalk - few things are as powerful as community-based research on the built environment
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RT @SciStarter: Here’s to all the #VerizonVolunteers participating in the @projsidewalk #CitizenScience project through SciStarter’s corpor….
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How did we miss this? Check out this amazing "Story Map" of using Project Sidewalk to evaluate sidewalk accessibility around transit stations in Chicago: #Chicago #UrbanAccessibility.
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Congrats to Hoda Allahbakhshi and Annina Ardüser on their paper "Navigation Challenges in Urban Areas for Persons with Mobility Restrictions", which used Project Sidewalk in Zurich to gather participatory data on sidewalk accessibility!
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RT @jonfroehlich: For the last decade+, my group has developed new interactive tools to advance understanding of the accessibility of the p….
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RT @jonfroehlich: 📅UrbanAccess'24 deadline extended to Sept 27th. Submit those Urban+AI thought pieces, position papers, works-in-progress,….
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RT @jonfroehlich: Now that the #CHI2025 deadline is over, it's time to work on your UrbanAccess2024 submissions 🙌🏽. Deadline Sept 20 11:59P….
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RT @Chimichurrichu: Ever wondered how screen-reader users interact with dynamic geovisualizations? 🤔.Check out our latest @ieeevis short pa….
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Interested in the role of AI in shaping Cities and Accessibility? Submit a short paper to our workshp on "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI". Deadline: Sept 20th.
📢Do you work on Urban + AI topics? How will AI impact the design of equitable & accessible cities, transit systems, and mapping tools? Submit to the 4th Annual Workshop on "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI"; Deadline Sept 20th. CFP:
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📢 Woohoo, we are over 75% to our goal! We now need more responses from sighted users of walkers, mobility scooters, & manual wheelchairs. Please reshare. To Participate, fill out this screening form
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Exciting opportunity to bring disparate perspectives together to discuss the emerging role of AI in the design of equitable and accessible cities, transportation systems, and interactive tools for mapping and navigation. Let's go! 🚀.
📢Do you work on Urban + AI topics? How will AI impact the design of equitable & accessible cities, transit systems, and mapping tools? Submit to the 4th Annual Workshop on "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI"; Deadline Sept 20th. CFP:
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RT @ADANational: Mobility aid users, ready for a research study about how people who use mobility devices perceive different sidewalk barri….
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