[OSM-talk] Blind People and OSM

[Nick Black]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Edoardo Marascalchi
<edoardo at edoardomarascalchi.it> wrote:
> hi,
>  as mentioned above, yesterday we was at a radio talk-show to launch the
>  milano micro mapping party initiative.
>  During the broadcast, a blind listener wrote us an email asking if the
>  data are suitable for blind people.
>
>  It could be of extreme interest to add information usefull for blind
>  people to build a customized routing application to drive blinde people
>  in our cities.
>  I think we could tag every single walk-crossing having the blind-beeper,
>  but i'm interesting in the GUI too just because it's a interesting
>  application of open datas.
>  The blind people mentioned above told us about a university project to
>  customize the TomTom GUI, but i don't think the data in the tom tom
>  could be usefull for blind people.
>
>  Someone have interesting experience about this topic?

Sat-Nav for the blind often came up when I was at university - though
I've never actually seen a working implementation.

This sort of thing: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/06/59174


>
>  Edoardo
>
>  ps. i'm sorry about my poor english..
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>  Edoardo Marascalchi
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