The cartographic authorities of Japan announced the creation of a ‘software’ that let you do the ‘download’ Internet data and produce with a 3D printer, maps for the blind.
The Geospatial Information Authority (GSI), under purview of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, will work in the development phase with experts from various fields to roads, pedestrian or road-rail-way can be clearly distinguished in final product, reports today in their ‘online’ the Asahi newspaper.
The data of the same program will allow print routes embossed with a height of a millimeter so that they can be easily detected by touch.
A professor of Niigata University, participating in the creation of the ‘software’, the newspaper explained that in addition to achieving introduce topographical features – such as slopes or hills – these maps could be used at subordinates courses emergency and evacuation in case of earthquake or tsunami for the blind.
Once the ‘software’ all map data of Japan to create this type of map are available on the Internet.
maps to urban areas will have a scale of 1: 2500 (that is one inch equals 25 meters), while in rural areas correspond to a scale of 1:. 25,000 (one centimeter equals 250 meters)
The material used to print the maps are 15×15 resin plates, at a cost of 150 yen (about one Euro) per unit.
But the price of printers necessary for the effect varies between 60,000 and 70,000 yen (between 429 and 501 euros).
The GSI also indicated that before the popularization of 3D printers is likely to offer in the future data to produce maps of very local through a specific request.
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