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 > >
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