Discover Barrier-free Accessible Locations with the Location Navigator

Abstract

We present the current version of the Location Navigator, which supports users by finding locations in Leipzig, that can be accessed without barriers. Besides this current version of the prototype we present additionally experiences regarding its engineering process and the previously performed conversion of Open Data provided by the registered association Behindertenverband Leipzig e.V. (BVL). Our vision of the underlying data is an inter-commune data network, in order to support persons with special needs and, furthermore, to apply developments such as the Location Navigator to other municipalities. For this purpose, RDF will be used for the representation and linking of data in the future. Besides the presentation of the Location Navigator, we sketch some approaches we evaluated during the creation of the respective data model.