Basing on tests with street children, the VolksNav family was developed for children, the blind, those who can't read maps etc.
The app divides 20 Cameroon cities like a cake into 12 sectors, forming location codes which are a better answer to the question "where?" than names, post codes, lat/lon or "here".
The app uses GPS and compass and - a worldwide innovation - indicates the direction to the centre of town not only with a graphic but also with text which also the blind can understand !!
Such tools allow a self guiding like in Rio de Janeiro around the Christ statue:
- inwards/outwards
and
- clockwise / counter clockwise.
VolksNav also can show maps with a kilometrical search grid, show the location code of clicked points and show the moving direction on map.
The main benefits are
- more awareness for locations, directions, distances and angles
- a language for international understanding (Orientation Esperanto)
The app divides 20 Cameroon cities like a cake into 12 sectors, forming location codes which are a better answer to the question "where?" than names, post codes, lat/lon or "here".
The app uses GPS and compass and - a worldwide innovation - indicates the direction to the centre of town not only with a graphic but also with text which also the blind can understand !!
Such tools allow a self guiding like in Rio de Janeiro around the Christ statue:
- inwards/outwards
and
- clockwise / counter clockwise.
VolksNav also can show maps with a kilometrical search grid, show the location code of clicked points and show the moving direction on map.
The main benefits are
- more awareness for locations, directions, distances and angles
- a language for international understanding (Orientation Esperanto)
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