[gps-talkusers] Re: Fwd: Mapping the Disney Resort

That is something I never thought of.  Checking the speed of the roller
coaster.  Since that is a key part to amusement park advertising.  You'll
know if you got your money's worth.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:47 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Fwd: Mapping the Disney Resort


> One of the first public GPS demonstrations we ever did was at Disney Land
> in 1996. We mapped several park points. Main Street and a few other
streets
> were already in the map data. We ended up by riding the Eutopia cars and
> yes, the blind people were driving without guides. Not that the GPS helped
> with that.
>
> I will write John off list because a Disney rep was at the recent ATIA
> conference in Orlando and we discussed this various subject.
>
> I also had another experience in 1997 when the Strider GPS won an
> Innovation award and we demonstrated it inside Disney World at a booth for
> 3 days. It was a trippy experience to be an exhibit rather than attending
> them. I'll have to calculate the speed of the roller coasters next time I
> go with my PK.
>
> Mike
>
>
> At 10:42 AM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
> >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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