[Tactile-Talk] Tactile airport maps

[Jenine Stanley]

I believe I read recently that a company, or maybe it was the MAD Lab at Lighthouse SF, is offering airport maps in tactile form. It’s possible these are simply files for tactile embossers though. Has anyone else seen this article?

I ask because I wrote my Masters thesis on tactile airports maps in 2002. Back then we were using puff paper and to tactilely emboss things was a long process with expensive software. 

I currently have an Embraille embosser from about 15 years ago that can no longer work with my Mac. When it could, it did very decent embossing. I’d love to have a book of airport maps, from the basic layout to terminal by terminal graphics if such things exist. Any direction here would be hugely appreciated. 

Jenine