Tag:information=tactile_map

information = tactile_map
Description
A map that can be read with fingers
Rendering in openstreetmap-carto
Group: Tourism
Used on these elements
Requires
tourism=information
Useful combination
blind:description=*
Status: in use
Tools for this tag
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A tactile map is a map that can be read with fingers. It is flat and does not have 3D-like buildings like a tactile model.

How to map

Add a node where the tactile map is located, and add tourism=information + information=tactile_map.

Tags to use in combination

• blind:description:en=*
• blind:description:de=*
• blind:website:de=*

Frequently used combinations

• tactile_writing=*
• speech_output=yes/no

Examples

• 

  This is a picture of a high quality tactile map made of plastic in Hannover, Germany, near the state education centre for the blind.

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  A tactile map for the blind in Japan.

• 

  This is a picture of a public tactile map made of bronze in Hannover, Germany, showing the royal gardens in Herrenhausen.

• 

  Tactile map of main railway station in Hannover, Germany.

First Tactile Map from OSM data was moved to HaptoRender.

Rendering of public tactile maps on visual maps

There is a visual map with features for the blind:

• Visual map for the blind .

Rendering and production of personal tactile maps

• Project HaptoRender
• I'm playing around with generating something that can be printed by graphical embossers from viewplus: http://bob.cakebox.net/osm/tactilosma/ -- Bobkare 19:33, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

List of tactile maps

Germany

• Braunschweig
• Flensburg
• Husum

Todo

• tactile_map/list

See also

• DisabilityDescription
• OSM for the blind
• information=tactile_model
• tactile_paving=*
• Tastbare Sehenswürdigkeiten auf barrierefreier-tourismus.info