Dear Friends, I thought some of us here might find this discussion from the OSM general discussion list interesting. It is about making map data available for the visually impaired and someone from an organization that specializes resources for the blind posted about how OpenStreetMap is being used for indoor navigation. The linked to article mentions how important #OpenData is to the effort and OpenStreetMap in particular.
I personally never thought about indoor mapping before, but this use case for it makes a lot of sense. There is a wiki page dedicated to how to use the OSM "Simple Indoor Tagging" system: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_Indoor_Tagging Might be something fun for a local meet up to do, I think I will see if our local group is interested in doing some of the significant buildings around my community. Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool use case. Cheers blake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeremiah Rose <jr...@aph.org> Date: Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM maps that are accessible for the visually The American Printing House for the Blind's Nearby Explorer app uses OSM to support indoor navigation. We have a video demonstrating the app reading out the distance and direction of POIs to a blind user. http://www.aph.org/news/july-2017/ http://tech.aph.org/ne/ To that end, we've been mapping a variety of venues with Simple Indoor Tagging. https://openlevelup.net/?t=0&l=0&o=t#18/38.257404/-85.715262 https://openlevelup.net/?t=0&l=0&o=t#20/38.254530/-85.691417 I'll post this on the forum as well. Jeremiah Rose _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
