[Accessibility] Confused about the whole blind osm process and things
maning sambale
emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 08:40:59 GMT 2010
> If you want to help to add a missing street, go there, turn the GPS logging on, walk up the street on one side and down on the other. This is needed not only for the visual representable information, but also for the chain of coordinates.
> Other than loadstone, future tools will also be able to guide you around curves, not only from crossing to crossing.
> If the street is connected to others, walk some meters into all connected streets so the seeing kartographer knows there is a connection.
>
> More about how to choose keywords and how to upload the track is written on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/For_the_blind#I_am_blind_-_How_can_I_help_.3F__-_Project_blindOSM
>
> If you get stuck, please ask again.
>
>> If someone could please help me make this easier to
>> understand the actual process, it would be much appreciated.
I would like to help in editing these tracks as well (in case there
are tracks around my immediate mapping area). Current OSM tools are
not very "blind-friendly". Sighted persons should assist in adding
these data in OSM database.
Let me know how.
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cheers,
maning
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