AmauroMap aims to give blind and visually impaired people access to interactive digital city maps. The project is not about linear navigation from A to B, moreover it is about the creation of cognitive maps by interactively exploiting a digital map. The system applies for the preparation of unknown routes. The technical innovation is the automatic derivation of spatial information from digital vector maps which makes it possible to use the system on a large area. The output will be a textual description of the visual map that can be accessed either with a braille display or a screenreader. The challenge is to describe the elements of the map in a way that respects the requirements of the target group. Therefore, a key element of the project is an empirical study about the orientation of blind and visually impaired people in the urban space.
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