Google Maps now lets users add wheelchair accessibility details for locations

Back in December, Google at long last added availability points of interest to Maps. It was a hotly anticipated expansion, however an amazingly welcome one for the more than three million individuals in the U.S. who require wheelchair availability. As we noted at the time, be that as it may, the accessible data still left a considerable measure to be craved. Maps has presently gathered availability information for very nearly seven million spots, however even with databases like Wheelmap, there were still some entirely huge holes the nation over.

This week, Google's hoping to speed the procedure up a bit by crowdsourcing the dataset. Presently Android clients can open up Google Maps and enter that data for an area themselves. The important data is situated under the "Openness" tab in "Your Contributions." From there, clients can include data about whether a spot has a wheelchair available passageway, lift, restroom and the sky is the limit from there.

Once included, that data will be accessible through Google Maps and inquiry on versatile and the desktop in the Accessibility segment of an area's depiction. That data is distinguishable on all stages, however Google evidently doesn't have a timetable for when desktop and iOS clients will have the capacity to add to the developing database.

As we noted in our before post, the data proceeds to critical for individuals who depend on wheelchairs to get around. In spite of the way that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires access for new structures, those built before its 1993 aren't required to cling to similar gauges, which means get to can frequently be somewhat of a crapshoot for more seasoned areas — a reality that those of us who don't have a similar kind of availability issues can again and again underestimate.