Re: [OSM-talk] There is a working map for people with Visual Impairment ?
Check out the work of Duncan Bain in Glasgow, here. On January 21, 2015 4:20:06 PM GMT, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2015-01-21 16:37 GMT+01:00 Badita Florin baditaflo...@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 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] There is a working map for people with Visual Impairment ?
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 metaz...@fastmail.net wrote: Check out the work of Duncan Bain in Glasgow, here. On January 21, 2015 4:20:06 PM GMT, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2015-01-21 16:37 GMT+01:00 Badita Florin baditaflo...@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 -- talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] There is a working map for people with Visual Impairment ?
Hi, 2015-01-21 16:37 GMT+01:00 Badita Florin baditaflo...@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 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
