On 24 Dec 2007, at 23:04, Kelly Jones wrote: > "You are at latitude <whatever>, longitude <whatever>. > The Hotel Berna is about 100 feet to the east. > Enskilda Gymansium is about 200 feet to the east-northeast. > Kammakargaten Street is about 50 feet to the south > Tegnergatan Street is about 100 feet to the north > [... and so on ...]" > > The idea would be you could "walk" through the world at a constant > zoom factor of 16 (maybe 17), like you do in text adventure games. Of > course, you could "teleport" anywhere, since typing "n" would only > move you one tile to the north (maybe even less).
On a mobile device with GPS and voice synthesis this sort of thing would be awesome to allow blind people to explore a new area unaided. -- Chris Jones, SUCS Admin http://sucs.org _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
