As I prepare for my talk on the accessibility benefits of well curated POI data in Open Street Map for the upcoming State of the Map 2026 conference, I think I found a way, sort of, to play a game similar to Geoguessr for a completely blind person. There's a random GPS coordinates generator at random.org/geographic-coordina… which shows you a piece of our planet on OSM. You take the latitude and longitude it spit out and feed it to Seeing Assistant Go, then pull the POI for the matched location and have fun while taking a virtual walk around a neighbourhood somewhere out there, browsing the different establishments, infrastructure etc. Spent a bit of afternoon yesterday exploring the different churches serving various language communities around the Main Street in Ottawa, visiting websites and Wikipedia articles - so many questions to ask if I ever speak to anyone from that area. Ach yeah, Piracema is a town in Brazil. Just letting you know since the thickets of trees alongside the car road leading there weren't much of an indication and I actually had to look the place up. #OSM #Cartography #Accessibility #Blind
RANDOM.ORG - Geographic Coordinates
This page will pick a random location on the planet using the true random number service RANDOM.ORG.www.random.org
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Peter Vágner
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk • •@Paweł Masarczyk Fun thing and nice initiative.
I believe you already know all of this but just to remind, these two tools are #OSM powered too. First one is fully exclusive with #a11y from the start, the second one has some screen reader accessibility built-in too.
audiom.net/
mapcomplete.org/blind_osm.html
Paweł Masarczyk
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Peter Vágner
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk • •Problem? Audiom does it too however it's more consistent, robust and has multiple navigation modes.
Paweł Masarczyk
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Paweł Masarczyk
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Grmapa - talking map
grmapa.zlotowicz.plPeter Vágner
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk • •I can't remember how consistent the accessibility of the app is but I was able to manage that.