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We present a methodology for using cartographic-based processes to alert the vision-impaired as they navigate through areas with transitory hazards. The focus of this methodology is the use of gazetteer-based georeferencing to integrate existing local cartographic resources with user-contributed geospatial data. User-contributed geospatial data is of high interest because it leverages local geographic expertise and offers significant advantages in dealing with hazard information in real-time. For blind and visionimpaired people, information about transitory hazards encountered while navigating through a public environment can be contributed by end-users in the same public environment, and quickly integrated into existing cartographic resources. For this project, we build collections of user-contributed geospatial updates from email, voice communication, text messages, and social networks.
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Rice, M.T., Hammill, W.C., Aburizaiza, A.O., Schwarz, S., Jacobson, R.D. (2011). Integrating User-contributed Geospatial Data with assistive Geotechnology Using a localized Gazetteer. In: Ruas, A. (eds) Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 1. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19143-5_16
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