[accessibleimage] GPS drawing was Re: what about?

Hi Robert,
I'm not familiar with Sendero GPS system just an admirer but from other GPS believe that one can make maps from waypoints. There is a very interesting type of art, concept called GPS Drawing and have always thought that it might be an interesting concept for visually impaired artists. It is a bit untraditional but for some can perhaps be of interesting. What it is "GPS receivers can automatically record where you have been as a digital dot-to-dot trail. The drawings are written with a GPS receiver along a journey. They are created by treating travel like a geodetic pencil or a cartographic crayon."
The result of the drawing can be sort of seen as like a big hand in the sky writing on the earth. The drawing format is the area one walks or drives.Anyway the reason I thought that this might be an art expression that might be of interest to the blind is that the result is a line drawing could be swelled or embossed out and it uses a tool that many blind persons might have and uses it in a little unusual way.
The whole thing sort of reminds one of those large land drawings done 1000 of years back that one can only see from a distance. The difference here is that the drawing is only registered in the GPS, a fleeting image, which can be put on paper. 

Anyway here is a link to the sight that tells about it

http://www.gpsdrawing.com/

and link to site for making maps with GPS information

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

Regards,
Lisa


Robert Jaquiss wrote:

Hello Lisa:
In answer to your questions, the users of the Sendero GPS systems can create Waypoints and upload these for sharing. At this time, there is no way a user can print out a map with this data. 

Regards,

Robert Jaquiss

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Yayla" <fnugg@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:59 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] what about?



Hi,
What about then taking these two mails and combining them in a way? I mean from Google's map directions one gets a type of line map and from Rachel Magario map information. Couldn't visually impaired persons make their own maps with the aid of a GPS and share them over the net? I might be talking through my hat since I don't have a GPS only covet one but from what I have read is that one can plot in ones own point of interest (POI) and then create a trace file and the create a map from this. Either swell out or emboss with a Tiger. At the points of interest one could add the extra information, sound, smell etc. One could end up with two types of maps, a line (list) map like the Google direction information except it would have the added information and a geographical map from the GPS trace file. Or what about a site where local way finding information is on line sent in from visually impaired? One doesn't need a GPS for this, just perhaps a note taker to help remember what one notices. 
Any thoughts?
Best,
Lisa

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