TrikeScore — mapping adult-trike accessibility (curb/grade/wind), Ilhéus pilot

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I ride an adult tricycle in Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, and started hand-mapping my daily routes in OSM to test an idea: a Walk-Score-style accessibility score for trikes, which have different failure modes than bikes (no curb climbing, grade sensitivity, wind exposure as a directional constraint).

So far: a route=bicycle/network=lcn relation covering my daily routes, tagged with kerb=, incline=, segregated=, surface= where I could determine them. Rendered live via CyclOSM: trikescore.com

This overlaps a lot with wheelchair/mobility accessibility mapping — same tags, similar constraints. Curious if anyone here has done similar work, or has thoughts on where this schema breaks down at scale. No scoring algorithm yet — just validating that the mapping approach holds up.

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Route relations are for signposted routes, not routes that you think are nice.

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Sorry, how can I mark my trike route?

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Hi Alan_Halley, welcome to the forum.

For individual routes you can use umap: https://umap-project.org/

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Interesting idea, thanks, Alan!

I ride a similar sort of thing https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9kyYS1M1mI_c7cVOJKIAKX4zmr0wTpCK7M4wxEzzwKLooLbjXRUHJtxUE&s=10 (& no, that’s NOT me! :grinning_face:) & yes, agree with your comments about trikes vs bikes.

I wonder if extracting wheelchair details from OSM would work for you?

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I have a beach trike. It has constraints similar to a wheelchair. I’ll look into using wheelchair details from OSM.

Thanks, Graeme.

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