Our maps can be made to represent outdoor walking routes indoor floor plan layouts fire exit routes and more.
Tactile maps for the blind.
Hand held tactile and large print maps are portable booklet style maps that give blind and partially sighted people access to information which improves spacial awareness enabling them to engage with an environment more independently.
Relatively little attention has been paid to the way in which blind and visually impaired people actually use tactile maps for everyday way finding tasks.
Braille maps have been difficult to come by being rare if not non existent.
Clickandgo tactile maps are appropriate for university campuses schools for the blind museums hotel lobbies downtown areas of cities camps libraries and other sites.
They are an attractive complement to any venue.
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Tactile maps are particularly helpful in providing blind or visually impaired individuals with an understanding of the layout of physical spaces.
Go to tmap to make your own tactile maps or to request a user account email.
One of the biggest challenges faced by blind travelers is obtaining a concept of their surroundings.
Braille and tactile maps the lighthouse designs and produces tactile maps of parkland theme parks transit systems street maps and floor plans.
Adjusted map scale options.
Ability to pan and zoom map preview to choose map boundary.
More accurate improved contrast larger text.
This site allows users to create customized maps of virtually any location on earth by just searching for an address.
Creators of tactile maps and drawings for the blind this is a list of tactile maps and atlases available through the princeton braillists.
Blind and partially sighted people often have great diiculty in comprehending the layout of.
Touch mapper touch mapper find out how you can create a free tactile map with a 3d printer embosser or on swell paper or order one online.
Using touch mapper you can easily create custom outdoor maps for any address of your choice.
Most research on tactile maps has focused on aspects of map design and methods of construction.
Tactile maps are physical representations of geographic data.