[Athen] designing an accessible map of our campus

[Debbie Krahmer]

I used TouchMapper to create a couple small, useable tactile maps for our
campus. It depends on whether your campus has a good map on Open Street
Map, though.  https://touch-mapper.org/en/

They printed out very nicely on a 3D printer if you have one, or I think
you can order them from the site.

We were also looking at using a software called MeshMixer to create the 3d
printable map by hand, but TouchMapper worked out much better for us.

Thanks,
D.

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Debbie Krahmer
Preferred Pronouns: My name/no pronouns
Associate Professor in the Libraries
Accessible Technology & Government Documents Librarian
304 Case-Geyer
Colgate University
315-228-6592
dkrahmer at colgate.edu

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Kevin Andrews <kejandre at ucsc.edu> wrote:


> Hey fellow pros,

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> I'm blind, and I have a strong interest in accessible wayfinding, for both

> digital and tactile maps with Braille and, more recently I've been seeing,

> auditory information being provided. If your school has an accessible

> tactile map either digital or good ol' thermoform paper, I'm curious how

> that was done and if you can share any insights with me? I"m on the prowl

> to make an accessible map of our campus and curious what other institutions

> have done before us?

>

> Thanks!

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> Best,

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