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

before I was a coffee roaster, I was a car mechanic.  I purchased the 
original GPS talk, and found that over half of the cars that I rode in had a 
speedometer that did not read correctly.  I even checked about a dozen at an 
official dinomomiter to see if my GPS was accurate.  I found that it 
generally was.  I also found that over fifty percent of cars that I tested 
had incorrect readings of at least five miles per hour.  Gerry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "vincent" <vinnroc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: [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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