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

Hi, Vincent and all,
I have been checking out the last few messages and have a couple 
observations.  Mapping the Disney grounds should be no problem, but you 
gotta remember the accuracy limits of the GPS.  Last I heard, it was about 
30 feet on a good day.  Of course, you wouldn't want to go to Disney on a 
bad day, anyway.  I don't like Disney because there is no place to sit down 
if you get tired of walking or standing in line.  Anyway, two waypoints 
closer hat 60 feet could interfere with each other.  You would just have to 
experiment a bit.

A good idea is, as you stated, would be to share waypoints with friends, or 
even post them to a list like this one.  That should be easy.

Checking the speed of the roller coaster?  Well, that would be a challenge.  
Remember that the GPS measures horizontal velocity only, and in a straight 
line only,  and the roller coaster is going up and down.  Sounds like a real 
challenge.

Good luck

Dick Myers

From: vincent <vinnroc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Fwd: Mapping the Disney Resort
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:55:34 -0500

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.
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From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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