[gps-talkusers] Fwd: Mapping the Disney Resort

Hello everyone,
I received the following message and wanted to forward it to the list to 
see if anyone has been to Disneyland and tried to map out the grounds?
Thanks,
Kim

>HI,
>I use the Braille Note with Version 2 of the GPS maps.
>I work for Disney Travel and book the reservations into our three Disney 
>hotels at the disneyland Resort.
>I was the first totally blind person hired at the resort in 2003.
>The resort would also like to begin hiring blind and visually impaired 
>individuals to other resort jobs besides hotel reservations in the future 
>and I have been invited to help with this process.
>While talking with my supervisor about those jobs blind people could not 
>currently do at the theme parks, I mentioned that getting around 
>disneyland, California Adventure and Down town disney without sighted 
>assistance would be difficult if not impossible.
>I have always wanted to take my Braille Note with GPS and map out the parks.
>She thought that was a great idea and we are planning on spending several 
>days at disneyland to se if this experiment would work.
>If disneyland works out I could then do the same for California Adventure, 
>Down town disney and the three resort hotels.
>
>I am wondering if anyone has tried to walk through disneyland and 
>basically create wave points and points of interest in files that could be 
>used for other blind people.
>In creating such a file it would be possible for blind people to navigate 
>around disneyland and could also result in blind people being hired to 
>work in the park.
>Do you know if anyone has attempted this project?
>My experience with using GPS is very limmited in that I just haven't had 
>the time to spend since being hired by disney Travel.
>My goal is to become very vamiliar with the various keystrokes and 
>commands which would then allow me to create POIS and Wave Points in a 
>Disneyland file which I could ultimately share with other blind people who 
>might want to visit the park on their own.
>I was planning to identify every trash can, bench, restaurant, shop, 
>bathroom and attraction in this file.
>
>Perhaps others could do something similar for other amusement parks in 
>California and throughout the country and world.
>What do you think?
>Is such a project feasible?
>John

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