On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Edoardo Marascalchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > as mentioned above, yesterday we was at a radio talk-show to launch the > milano micro mapping party initiative. > During the broadcast, a blind listener wrote us an email asking if the > data are suitable for blind people. > > It could be of extreme interest to add information usefull for blind > people to build a customized routing application to drive blinde people > in our cities. > I think we could tag every single walk-crossing having the blind-beeper, > but i'm interesting in the GUI too just because it's a interesting > application of open datas. > The blind people mentioned above told us about a university project to > customize the TomTom GUI, but i don't think the data in the tom tom > could be usefull for blind people. > > Someone have interesting experience about this topic?
Sat-Nav for the blind often came up when I was at university - though I've never actually seen a working implementation. This sort of thing: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2003/06/59174 > > Edoardo > > ps. i'm sorry about my poor english.. > -- > Edoardo Marascalchi > ICT Consultant > > website: http://www.edoardomarascalchi.it > skype: My status <skype:asca_edom?call> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Nick Black -------------------------------- http://www.blacksworld.net _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
