KIMAP - navigation app for disabled people
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- KIMAP - navigation app for disabled people
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The historic centre of Florence presents some objective difficulties for visitors with reduced mobility (especially in the oldest area of the city: narrow pavements, cobblestone pavements, uneven surfaces). In recent years the city has provided a kit (IT/EN) to facilitate and encourage tourism for disabled people which also includes the Kimap APP, which can be downloaded for free. Kimap allows users with mobility difficulties to find the most accessible and suitable path to reach destinations. The app provides 4 tour guides with historical-artistic itineraries connected to city mapping in open data for barrier-free tourism to explore the city in complete autonomy. The maps are constantly updated thanks to modern techniques for detecting road surfaces providing real-time information and optimizing navigation for people with wheelchairs, electric hand-bikes and scooters, family with baby strollers (updating accessible routes automatically, time and distance, providing voice assistant). Moreover, while used, Kimap automatically detects data and collects inputs from the users’ community. Bottom-up actions to co-create accessibility mapping by using information from the users, who become themselves data’ collectors, ensuring an easy and timely update with reasonable investment. In addition, crowd-mapping events permit the involvement of different mappers including associations and committees of people with disabilities in order to cover a large part of the city (e.g. crowd-mapping experience in the Anconella Park led to the identification of the interventions improving the accessibility to the area). Find out more at: https://kimap.it/en/
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