Supporting Accessibility for Blind and Vision-impaired People With a Localized Gazetteer and Open Source Geotechnology

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-190

  Rice, Matthew T ^a   Aburizaiza, Ahmad O ^a   Jacobson, R Daniel ^b   Shore, Brandon M ^a   Paez, Fabiana I ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MAPS; OPEN SYSTEMS; URBAN PLANNING;

GEOTECHNOLOGY; IMPAIRED PEOPLE; INFORMATION UPDATES; LOCALISED; OPEN-SOURCE; POSTGRESQL; TACTILE MAPS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISION IMPAIRED; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

HAZARDS;

ACCESSIBILITY; BLINDNESS; DATABASE; DISABILITY; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GIS; MAPPING; PLACE NAME;

EID: 84859741257     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2012.01318.x     Document Type: Article

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