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This page is intended for blind users, or people printing maps for blind users.
Read this first - map replaced by new version
Kent - map and instructions ready for trials
This is an external link to David Hawgood's web pages. About tactile maps on web pages The maps described on this page has been replaced by
a set of maps of Wiltshire with large type and Braille labels
on David Hawgood's website
www.dhmap.org/WIL/.
There are similar
maps of all English counties. This page remains
to describe the earlier versions.
Go to GENUKI Wiltshire main page
if you have used these maps before. A set of tactile pages for use together has the map itself
with braille labels, a key in braille with abbreviations used in
labels on that map, and a page with symbols and information
common to several maps. The key and the symbols page are both
marked in braille with a web address www.genuki.org.uk/b which is
a short cut to this web page. The key to
abbreviations is also on a web page, together with a description
of the lines on the map which represent roads across Wiltshire,
joining the towns. These maps are intended to help blind people using GENUKI web
pages for Wiltshire. The main GENUKI
Wiltshire page has genealogy information for all of
Wiltshire, arranged by topic - for example archives and
libraries, church records, census. A page listing Wiltshire Towns & Parishes links
to a page for every parish in Wiltshire, having at least the
location of the parish and a list of church records and indexes.
The locations are given as a distance and direction from a larger
town, for example Amesbury is 7 miles North of Salisbury. The
maps will have all these larger places marked. The first map with
the whole of Wiltshire shows 8 towns in the county and 3 just
outside. Maps will be added to show smaller towns. The map has a divided frame with letters a to k down the left
and numbers shown as #a to #i along the top. Each town is shown
as a circle, with a two letter abbreviation of its name against
it. Each town abbreviation is preceded by a semi-colon. The key page lists the abbreviation, the full names of the
town, and the reference to its square on the map. For example
code SA is Salisbury and its square on the map of Wiltshire is
I#F. There is a scale bar on the map - top left in the map of
Wiltshire. Chapman
County Codes, standard 3 letter abbreviations, are used for
names of neighbouring counties. The map of Wiltshire is based on a map in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary
of 1835. menu for section The purpose is to provide maps in Portable
Document Format (pdf) which can be printed using the free
Acrobat Reader. The maps are labelled in Braille - the Braille font is
embedded in the document, so it is not necessary to download a
Braille font seperately. The printed maps can be turned into
tactile maps. In the United Kingdom, the RNIB provide a
service to produce tactile diagrams from printed diagrams - currently the
charge is about £1 per sheet. The first map, of the whole of Wiltshire, shows the locations
of eight towns in Wiltshire and three just outside. It shows the
county boundaries, and roads linking the towns. I intend to provide four more maps showing sections of
Wiltshire with more towns, and a map showing the hills and
rivers. Map of Wiltshire in PDF format with
Braille font Towns are labelled with abbreviations, mainly two letters. There is a key to abbreviations
Key to map symbols in PDF format with
Braille font If you use these maps, I would greatly appreciate a message to
say so, with an indication of how useful they are. My background
is in computers and genealogy. I have received help and advice
from RNIB and the National Centre for Tactile Diagrams in the
United Kingdom - but opinions from users would let me know if I
am on the right lines, and maybe encourage me to produce maps of
other counties. Please say how you got them turned into tactile
form - I know of the RNIB service but would like to indicate how
users in other countries can get tactile maps.
Send an email to david@hawgood.com . As well as maps with Braille labels, I am producing maps with
Large Type - 18 point. There
are also Clear Type maps with town and county names in full, in
14 point letters. The map is the same for Braille, Large and
Clear type. The maps have letters down the side and numbers
across the top to indicate position of places by map square.
There is a version of the Clear Type map with grid lines (in red)
showing these map squares. Updated: 16 April 2002 by David Hawgood, email david @ hawgood.com
Map replaced by new version
How to use Wiltshire maps
How to print and raise maps
Method
Map of Wiltshire
About tactile maps on web pages