[OSM-talk] There is a working map for people with Visual Impairment ?

[Cristian Consonni]

Hi,

2015-01-21 16:37 GMT+01:00 Badita Florin <baditaflorin at gmail.com>:
> I want to apply in Romania for a Grant , for helping blind or visual impaired persons with the help of OSM.
>
> But i cannot find a single working example. I found only theoretical approaches in German language.
> I tried Lalm but i cannot get it started.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lalm
>
> amauromap that is only theoretical and half dead ) tiles not loading, no github from what i have seen
> http://www.ceit.at/ceit-alanova/projects/amauromap
>
> And the rest of the links point to this website http://www.blind.accessiblemaps.org/ that is in german, and even translated in english i don`t even understand if is working, how can i use it, etc

I am not at all an expert in the field, but in 2013 at the State of
the Map (SotM) conference there was a presentation of an interest
project called Haptomai by Christian Graf and Frank Wippich.
The presentation title was: "Haptomai: An online service for
customizable tactile maps".

Briefly, the project was about providing a service to produce
"customizable emaps for the blind". Those maps were printed in a
particular way such that the users (blind or visually impaired people)
could get some information touching the maps. The idea was tested by
the creators organizing trips for blind people - with an accompanying
person to provide assistance - and providing the, with this tactile
maps.

See the video of the presentation (in English):
http://vimeo.com/78562730

This is the project website but it is only available in German:
http://www.haptomai.de/

Cristian