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

[Drew Dara-Abrams]

The market leader for navigation devices and software for the visually
impaired is called Sendero: http://www.senderogroup.com/

I don't believe they do open source or open data, but their products are
worth looking at, if you're interested in this topic.

Best,
Drew



On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Jo Walsh <metazool at fastmail.net> wrote:

> Check out the work of Duncan Bain in Glasgow, here.
>
>
> On January 21, 2015 4:20:06 PM GMT, Cristian Consonni <
> kikkocristian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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