Tactile maps are a great aid for people who are blind or partially sighted, helping them to orient themselves and to plan routes. Using Touch Mapper, you can easily create custom outdoor maps for any address of your choice.

Check out suggestions on how to teach students to use tactile maps, from the most basic object books to more complex tactile graphics: Jim Durkel shares ideas for helping children with visual impairments collect souvenirs and explore maps during family vacations.

Touch Mapper tactile maps are optimized for clarity and the practical needs of people who are visually impaired: the 3D-printed maps are not a true-to-life representations of the area. Touch Mapper currently supports only maps that show each street and building in the area.

Tactile maps are a great aid for people who are blind or partially sighted, helping them to orient themselves and to plan routes. Using Touch Mapper, you can easily create custom outdoor …

An accessible web-app that quickly generates tactile street maps. TMAP is a screen reader-friendly tool for creating tactile street maps. Raised lines and textures represent roads, pedestrian paths, and railways.

Our tactile maps give blind and partially sighted people access to information which improves spatial awareness, enabling them to engage with an environment more independently.

The Finnish developer Samuli Kärkkäinen has developed and published the online tool https://touch-mapper.org, which enables tactile maps to be generated for printing on a 3D printer. The map data is based on OpenStreetMap and is generated automatically.

Jan 8, 2024 · Touch Mapper lets you create a 3D printed maps e.g. a tactile map for the blind, based on OpenStreetMap data. The website tool allows you to pick any neighbourhood throughout the world and generate a 3D model.

Feb 29, 2016 · Touch Mapper is a simple tool that 3D prints tactile maps using map data from OpenStreetMap. Just enter the address that you want to map out, and Touch Mapper will instantly bring it up.

What are tactile maps? Haptic maps, which are also reffered to as tactile maps, are map sheets designed to be read by touch. Their base map is a standard map source converted to a simplified black-and-white graphic following the principles of tactile perception.