♿ Accessible travel
City guides that tell the truth about access.
AI trip planners are known to invent the details that matter here — a ramp, a step-free entrance, a hotel that is two stairs short. Each guide starts from OpenStreetMap: venues contributors have tagged for wheelchair access, each linked to its record. It adds links to official transport and tourism sources, and rates neighbourhoods rather than calling a whole city “welcoming to all travellers.” The overview and neighbourhood ratings are written by a language model and labelled as such; the transport facts come from the operators.
data: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikipedia, official transport and tourism sites · overview and ratings: written by AI
10 cities
Choose a city
Mostly flat · some old-town cobbles
Flat · canal bridges steep
Flat · curb-cut heavy
Mostly flat · rebuilt post-war
Flat · wide sidewalks
Old town cobbles · hilly Wawel
Very hilly · tram gaps
Very hilly · steps common
Hilly · cobbles citywide
Old town cobbles · lower town flat
Where the data comes from
OpenStreetMap wheelchair tagging. OpenStreetMap is a crowdsourced map. A venue tagged wheelchair=yes means a contributor recorded full step-free access — from a sign, their own experience, or someone who uses a wheelchair. OpenStreetMap doesn’t require an inspection, and neither do we: treat each pin as a strong lead and check before you rely on it. Every pin on our maps comes from these tags.
Sources you can check. Every guide links to the city’s Wikipedia article, an official transport or tourism source, and the W3C accessibility guidelines.
Model-written text, labelled. Each guide’s overview and neighbourhood ratings are written by a language model (Google Gemini) and labelled as such, with their sentences about public transport left out. Sections that proved unreliable — the model’s transit summary, hospital lists, tips and transit notes — are switched off.
Transport from the operators. Each guide’s transport section states the operator’s own figures — how many metro stations have lifts, how much of the tram and bus fleet is low-floor — with a link and the date they were checked.
Community check-ins. If you’ve travelled with mobility needs to one of these cities, you can send what you found. Nothing is published automatically, and no check-ins have been published yet.
Terrain up front. Each city card carries a one-line terrain summary — cobbles, hills, tram gaps — and each guide rates neighbourhoods rather than calling a whole city accessible.