A variation of this would help dramatically in subway navigation in big cities as well. It would be a huge project to map the subway lines, but once done it would help a lot. It could even be an extra feature for those that would use it, sort of like the dictionary for the BN is extra.
Have a great day, Alex
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Erichsen" <pianoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 11:45:55 +1000 Subject: [gps-talkusers] trainlines
Hi all,
This relates to Australia, but is this possible or would this be
possible
with BrailleNote GPS?
Maybe others could give me an opinion on an idea I had.Because the GPS is for vision impaired people, I wonder whether
it would be
possible for rail lines to become a feature you can move
along--similar to a
street. This would make it possible for us to see whether a train
line goes
between two points we are calculating a root for.I guess an example would be for going from Kooyong to Footscray.
You can't
calculate a pedestrian route, because it's too far to walk. You
can't
calculate a vehicle route because you can't drive. But if you
could
calculate a route and the system would allow you to go along a
rail line,
you would be able to see that train is an option for getting
between the two
points.
Scott
