Hi everyone, almost a whole year ago I asked for participation in an online survey for my bachelor thesis on the colors of street classes in the Mapnik/Standard map style for users with color vision deficiencies. First of all, thanks again to the many participants!
Back then I had planned to release the results and text right after I got my grade but then it grew into a paper for the International Cartographic Conference 2013 in Dresden and I was not sure if I was allowed to share before the conference. So I didn't. Long story short: The conference is in a month and the proceedings are now online (http://www.icc2013.org/?node=29)! :-) The Paper: http://hannes.enjoys.it/pub/Johannes%20Kr%C3%B6ger,%20Jochen%20Schiewe%20&%20Beate%20Weninger%20-%20Analysis%20and%20improvement%20of%20the%20OpenStreetMap%20street%20color%20scheme%20for%20users%20with%20color%20vision%20deficiencies%20(2013,%20Proceedings%20of%20the%2026th%20International%20Cartographic%20Conference,%20Dresden).pdf == http://www.icc2013.org/_contxt/_medien/_upload/_proceeding/357_proceeding.pdf My bachelor thesis (in german): http://hannes.enjoys.it/pub/Johannes%20Kr%C3%B6ger%20-%20Weiterentwicklung%20von%20OpenStreetMap-Farbschemata%20f%C3%BCr%20Nutzer%20mit%20Farbsinnst%C3%B6rungen%20(2012,%20Bachelorarbeit).pdf If you come to ICC, you can see me in a cold sweat in the "Colours in Map Design" Session: http://www.icc2013.org/_contxt/programme/default_session.asp?node=34&day=&sessionID=54 Ignore the image saying "Legende" by mistake, it is german for "Legend" or "Map Key". Oopsie! ;) If anybody is genuinely interested in the raw data from the online survey, I will release it. I do not want to invest time in proper anonymisation of the data sets right now if there is no need. I am open for any kind of comments and criticism and love to discuss the topic! My own conclusion was that "my colors" looked too out of place in the map and thus I did not want to suggest them as changes. Maybe this is just me though, so if you think differently, please say so! In my opinion it would be much more reasonable to design a whole new dedicated accessibility style (to not "only" cover color vision but also take general bad sight into account). I would be interested in working on that collaboratively in case others would like to. Cheers, Hannes _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk