Technology for giving users cognitive mapping capability

A system of geospatial guidance for sight impaired users comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer readable storage medium connected to the processor, wherein the computer readable storage medium has stored thereon a program for controlling the processor, and wherein the processor is operative with the program to execute the program for:
• receiving, by a computer system, a user selection of a geospatial area;
• receiving, by the computer system, a user selection of a point of interest criteria;
• finding, by the computer system, in a database that includes geospatial points of interest, those geospatial points of interest that match the user selected criteria and that are in the user selected geospatial area;
• determining, by the computer system, a reference location in the user selected geospatial area;
• determining, by the computer system, distance and direction from each of the found points of interest to the reference location;
• and
• presenting, to the user by the computer system, sets of information, wherein each set includes a description of one of the found points of interest together with distance and direction between the reference location and the one of the found points of interest.

A computer program product of geospatial guidance for sight impaired users, including a computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a computer system, wherein the instructions, when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to implement a method comprising:

• receiving, by a computer system, a user selection of a geospatial area;
• receiving, by the computer system, a user selection of a point of interest criteria;
• finding, by the computer system, in a database that includes geospatial points of interest, those geospatial points of interest that match the user selected criteria and that are in the user selected geospatial area;
• determining, by the computer system, a reference location in the user selected geospatial area;
• determining, by the computer system, distance and direction from each of the found points of interest to the reference location;
• and
• presenting, to the user by the computer system, sets of information, wherein each set includes a description of one of the found points of interest together with distance and direction between the reference location and the one of the found points of interest.