[OSM-dev] [OSM-newbies] Text adventure game-like interface to openstreetmap?

[Chris Jones]

On 24 Dec 2007, at 23:04, Kelly Jones wrote:

> "You are at latitude <whatever>, longitude <whatever>.
> The Hotel Berna is about 100 feet to the east.
> Enskilda Gymansium is about 200 feet to the east-northeast.
> Kammakargaten Street is about 50 feet to the south
> Tegnergatan Street is about 100 feet to the north
> [... and so on ...]"
>
> The idea would be you could "walk" through the world at a constant
> zoom factor of 16 (maybe 17), like you do in text adventure games. Of
> course, you could "teleport" anywhere, since typing "n" would only
> move you one tile to the north (maybe even less).

On a mobile device with GPS and voice synthesis this sort of thing  
would be awesome to allow blind people to explore a new area unaided.

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