SASHA BLAIR-GOLDENSOHN
Google Maps relies on its users to provide data on everything from business features to route timing and navigation details.
Ahead
of this summer’s Paralympics, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn’s
team has been meeting with Paralympic athletes to educate them about the
accessibility features on Google Maps and document their experiences using the
service in a foreign country.
He
says his team wants “to tell the story of Maps and how it makes it easier to
get around Paris.
We’re
not only talking the track, velodrome and Paralympic venues, but how to get
around the city’s bistros, nightclubs, museums.
We
want to look at tools for how you plan a visit to an unfamiliar city. We will
document it and share it back with Google.”
According
to Blair-Goldensohn, the future of accessible mapping will have more details on
routes.
Just
like Google Maps can toggle to map the journey via car, public transit or on
foot, it is evolving to include routes that are 100% wheelchair accessible.
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