I think the good city is a place which is open to everyone... right? Sort of space which "includes" everyone and can be utilized by every person from public...

However, it does not always happen that way... for example people using wheelchairs cannot access part or big part of spaces that is meant at least officially to be public. One of the ways of changing that, I think, is to show to people that this place is not inclusive, it excludes certain people...  maybe even put it on a map? Wheelmap.org is something like that.

"Wheelmap is a map for wheelchair accessible locations. On wheelmap.org you can find out if a location is accessible or not and are also be able to tag locations yourself."

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great video demonstrating the work of OpenMapsCaucasus in Georgia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C93jVa5EyY

see how we covered it.

I've arrived in USA several days ago. I am attending State of the Map 2011, which is held in Denver, Colorado. State of the Map is an annual conference (it's fifth already) by OpenStreetMap, where the mappers, developers and different interesting people meet together to share their knowledge, experience, ask questions and have fun (that's the most important part).

I got lucky enough to get a scholarship from OSM and get here in Denver, travel a lot and be at the final destination. I am really grateful because of getting this chance and thanks to all the people that have been involved in organizing everything for us. I hope I can "pay back" with my contribution to the map with my activities now or in the future (at least :)). It took quite a long way (physically and not) to get to US - get invitation, applications, documents, visa... but it all went well and is not really an experience interesting to share... so I'll skip this.

It is already my second year at the conference. Unlike last year, this year I will be presenting something, lightning talk on State of the Map, gis and mapping in Georgia.

I have been involved in open-source mapping activities since the beginning of 2010 (though I've more than 3-4 years of GIS experience). It started when I got my first job at Open Maps Caucasus (now known as JumpStart Georgia). OMC started a mapping project using separate openstreetmap server set up at our office first. Project goal was to create most complete, up-to-date, high-quality (as possible) geodataset of Georgia.

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