Smart Cities
Invisible Terrain: Why Britain's Accessibility Mapping Gap Is a Civil Rights Failure, Not a Technical One
For disabled people across Britain, the promise of digital navigation is routinely broken by the absence of accurate accessibility data — missing dropped kerbs, unrecorded steps, and inaccessible entrances that exist in physical reality but not in any authoritative dataset. The fragmentation of accessibility information across hundreds of local authority systems, with no national standard and no enforcement mechanism, represents a systemic failure of Britain's geospatial infrastructure. This inv
