Welcome to Project Sidewalk! Project Sidewalk is an open source project aimed at mapping and assessing every sidewalk in the world using remote crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence, and online satellite & streetscape imagery.
If you use or reference Project Sidewalk in your research, please cite:
Manaswi Saha, Michael Saugstad, Hanuma Teja Maddali, Aileen Zeng, Ryan Holland, Steven Bower, Aditya Dash, Sage Chen, Anthony Li, Kotaro Hara, and Jon Froehlich. 2019. Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data At Scale. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 62, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300292
Want a Project Sidewalk server set up for your city/municipality? You can read about things we consider when choosing new deployment cities on our wiki, including geographic diversity, presence of local advocates, funding, etc. You can also read some past discussions here, here, and here.
If you would like to suggest that we deploy in your city/municipality, please read through the links above and then email us at sidewalk@cs.uw.edu!
Instructions for setting up a development environment for Project Sidewalk can be found on our wiki.
These instructions are geared towards internal team members. If you're outside the team and hoping to set up your own server with data for a city that we don't currently support, then you'll want to start with our Creating a new database wiki page. Note that setting up a db for your city is a non-trivial amount of work the first time through, especially for those without experience with GIS software. Feel free to email our lead engineer, Mikey (saugstad@cs.washington.edu) with questions.