Maps for Colour-Blind13/10/2009 |
| The new Ordnance Survey digital mapping, OS VectorMap Local, has been developed to be customisable, allowing for the creation of colour-blind-friendly styles, which to most people will look very strange but could help avoid future confusion for those with the condition. A solution for many people who find map reading a struggle, or for the hundreds of thousands that are colour-blind, an even more arduous experience. |
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The new mapping product allows councils and businesses to create styles especially for colour-blind people that we hope will make life easier. The traditional rainbow of cartographic colours - green for grass-land and trees, red for main roads and public footpaths, and blue for motorways and rivers - can become indistinguishable, therefore making map reading extremely difficult.
Colour blindness is the result of damage to the specialised "cone" cells in the eye which make colour vision possible. It is the most common genetic disorder among humans, afflicting mostly men, with around 8% unable to tell the difference between reds and greens. Instead these colours appear as shades of grey or brown, making it difficulty to interpret the colour‑coded features shown on maps.
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