[Accessibility] Accessible routing service

[Ota Procházka]

Hi,

I am just finishing my project. The aim is to create text description
of some route for visualy impaired person. In first phase  of
project(finished), the description will be created by operators
working in small organization called SONS - it contains navigation
call center for blind. In second stage, there will be web page with
two input fields, where you put the start point and end point and
optionally some settings and then just press button to generate
description.

I collected some tags and proposed missing tags needed for visualy
impaired and mapped with them some small test area (in Prague). I
updated Mapnik rendering style to be able to render important places,
footways etc. and used it as extra layer (for some aerial maps, where
operator can better check generated description). The layer containing
objects from OSM on map is active and operator can select points on it
to create route - I have no routing implemened yet. I have webservice
(written in JEE), which takes coordinates params and generates
description. It uses Postgis (Mapnik's database) for orientation and
it uses libosm (I had to little bit extend DownloadingDataSet class)
to comunicate with OSM server and to download exact information about
elements.

I did some testing with operators from SONS navigation call center to
test generated description. There were some problems, but in fact, it
was succesffull.
On monday, I plan to test it with blind person in terrain.

I wrote about this project to this forum, but nobody reply - may be I
wrote it in little bit stupid way :(.

The biggest problem is, that I need it for Czech organisation and
nearly all my texts are in Czech language. But if you are in some part
interested, i can translate it.

Ota

2010/5/7 ant <antofosm at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I want to inform you about a student project I'm doing about an
> accessible routing service. Please see the Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Accessible_Routing
>
> Greetings
> ant
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