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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Tactile Map Automated Creation System Using OpenStreetMap
Authors : Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Satoko Koda, Kazunori Minatani
Published in: Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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We have developed a Web-based tactile map automated creation system
tmacs
. Users simply type in an address or the name of a building and the system instantly creates an image of a tactile map, which is then printed on capsule paper and raised up by a heater. This time we modified this system to deal with OpenStreetMap (OSM). The advantage of using OSM data is that
tmacs
becomes to be able to create tactile maps of any location in the world and include information which is useful for blind people such as tactile paving. Another feature of the new system is that sighted users can change the point and scale of a tactile map in the same way as a regular Google Map. We are exploring the possibility of increasing the number of countries whose tactile maps can be created with
tmacs
.