GeoAccess

The White House holds monthly disability calls to update stakeholders on events and policy development. The next call, 3 PM EDT on May 26,2011, will feature, among others, Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood. There is a chance for questions and comments at the end of the hour.Dial in for listeners: (800) 230-1085; tell the operator you want to participate in the "White House Disability Call". You should dial in 5 minutes ahead of time. This call is off the record and not for press purposes.

A new website, wheelmap.org, shows visitors a map of a city, with indicators for restaurants, subway stops, etc., and whether each is wheelchair accessible or not. It's just getting started and has more data for Berlin than anywhere else. They're encouraging people to join and crowd-source the info.

FastMall for IOS and Android lets you download mall maps with details on stores, restrooms, elevators/escalators, etc. This is not an Internet or GPS app, but it does some pretty cool stuff, is sort of compatible with VoiceOver (see the AppleVis review), and they feature the disability implications on their home page.

While everyone is waiting for the release of real-time data for the nation's largest subway system, one engineer decided to build an amusing application. MTA.me takes schedule information for New York's many subway lines and spawns trains on the screen as they leave their starting points, showing them as growing lines. Whenever lines intersect, the one being 'hit' acts like a string in that it bends and is released, generating a musical tone. So after a few minutes you are hearing an oddly Asian string concert.

Here's a comparative review of the 2 geoaccess apps.

Peter Warden has published Data Science Toolkit, most of which is about geolocation, such as converting a street address to coordinates or coordinates to political entity.