[Accessibility] Accessible routing service

[ant]

Hi Ota,

sounds interesting. The web page idea you described is very similar to 
ours. Btw, there are already some tags introduced especially for the 
blind, e.g. for tactile pavings. See 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_blind for related stuff.

For the routing part, you might want to consider pgRouting:
http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/

Keep up the good work.

Greetings
ant

On 08.05.2010 09:59, Ota Procházka wrote:
> 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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