JP2000148009A - Atlas - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an easy-to-use atlas for physically handicapped persons by marking on a map with roads and buildings or public transportation systems described thereon, signs and symbols at their existence positions showing that there are facilities and equipment such as toilettes, telephones, elevators dedicated to the physically handicapped persons. SOLUTION: Place names, building names, station names of public transportation systems, names of facilities such as public offices, road names, names of principal service providers, etc., are written on a map A. On this map, signs and symbols of facilities, equipment, services (telephones, toilettes, escalators, elevators, etc.), 1-21 dedicated to physically handicapped persons on wheelchairs, deaf-mutes, pregnant women, parents with babies, etc., are written. Moreover, signs and symbols showing places of refuge on emergency such as fire, earthquake, flood are written thereon. Therefore, the physically handicapped persons can find out the dedicated places for the facilities, equipment, and services, and understand doorways and their directions of the buildings at the same time, and move to the places for the target facilities, equipment, and services without hesitation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to persons with disabilities, such as persons with disabilities, pregnant women, infants, parents and children with caregivers, persons with disabilities, deaf persons, etc., on a map on which roads, buildings, facilities, transportation systems, etc. are entered. The present invention relates to an atlas that has a dedicated facility / equipment for the disabled and which is easy to use for the disabled.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, an atlas in which various roads, public or private buildings, facilities and transportation means are entered on a map surface has been widely used. However, since these atlases were maps for healthy people, wheelchairs, caregivers,
For deaf people, parents with infants, and pregnant women,
Signs indicating the existence of equipment (telephones, baby seats, elevators, escalators) and facilities (toilets, nursery rooms, parking lots), etc. dedicated or assisted by these persons have not been entered, and the existence of such signs cannot be understood. In many cases, it was not possible to use it, or even if it was found that it was lost, it moved in vain, resulting in inconvenience.

[0003]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve these problems of the prior art, and to provide a person with a disability or the like with its dedicated equipment / facility and its position / entry direction. An object of the present invention is to provide an easy-to-use atlas that is easy to use by clearly indicating the user.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems The configuration of the present invention which has solved the above problems is as follows: 1) Existence of facility equipment such as toilets, telephones, elevators, etc. dedicated to persons with disabilities on a map on which roads, buildings or transportation means are entered. 2) An atlas, characterized by a sign indicating the presence of the facility, such as a toilet, telephone, elevator, etc. dedicated to pregnant women on a map on which roads, buildings, or transportation are entered. Atlas where the sign is entered in the location of the sign. 3) Existence of facilities such as toilets, telephones, elevators, etc. for persons with disabilities with caregivers on the map on which roads, buildings or transportation are entered. 4) Atlas, characterized by a sign symbol indicating the location of the vehicle, 4) facility equipment such as toilets, telephones, elevators, etc. dedicated to persons with infants on a map on which roads, buildings or transportation means are entered. 5) Atlas where the sign of presence is entered at the location of the sign. 5) The sign of an evacuation site for earthquakes, fires or tsunamis is entered on a map on which roads, buildings or transportation means are entered. 1) to 4) Atlas described in any one of the above 6) Any of the above 1) to 5) in which the direction of the entrance and exit of a wheelchair in a building / facility or transportation system and the direction of the entrance / exit are written on the map surface. 7) Atlases described 7) Colored public facilities, private buildings or private enterprises, and public transportation on different pages in or near the page of the map, and classified with different colors. The name of each facility / building / transportation on the colored surface and the presence of equipment for the disabled / maternal / caregiver / person with a disability or for those with a baby Be sure to fill out the sign symbols and Featured in the atlas.

[0005]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The sign for exclusive use of a person such as a disabled person of the present invention is preferably an easy-to-understand pictographic sign, and is preferably used in a unified manner. In addition, it is preferable to simultaneously enter the presence / absence of an entrance / exit to a dedicated device / facility having the sign, an entrance / exit direction in that direction, and a guide direction. In addition, public facilities / buildings, private companies or private building names, and transportation, etc., are distinguished by different ground colors (background colors of letters and symbols).
In addition, it is preferable that a description in which a dedicated sign symbol of a person such as a disabled person is entered in a table format is arranged near the map surface.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The embodiment is an example of an atlas having the map surface of FIGS. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a map surface of a wide-area map according to the embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a tabular page of a sign symbol according to the embodiment. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a map surface of a road facility in the transportation according to the embodiment. In the figure, reference numerals 1 to 21 denote sign symbols indicating the presence of each service, equipment, facility, 1 is a wheelchair public telephone sign symbol,
2 is a unisex wheelchair toilet sign symbol, 3 is a male wheelchair toilet sign symbol, 4 is a female wheelchair toilet sign symbol, 5 is a parking sign symbol for the disabled, 6 is an induction chime sign symbol, 7
Is a sign language service sign, 8 is a stroller lending sign, 9 is a nursing room sign, 10 is a baby seat sign, 11 is a wheelchair elevator sign, 12 is a parent and child restroom sign, 13 is an assistance service sign, 14 is Wheelchair doorway sign, 15 wheelchair doorway sign, 16 childcare room, 17 parent-child restroom sign, 1
8 is a guide block sign, 19 is a guide dog accompanying sign, 20 is a slope sign, and 21 is a disaster evacuation site sign. A and C are map surfaces, B is a tabular page, B
1 is a blue background region, B2 is an orange background region, B3 is a green background region, B4 is a yellow background region, and B5 is a purple background region. The map surface A of this embodiment is a map of the commercial district of Tenjin in Fukuoka, and the map surface A is filled with the names of places, buildings, names of transportation stations, names of facilities such as government offices, names of roads, names of major companies, and the like. Have been. This map A has special facilities, equipment and services (telephones, toilets, escalators, elevators, guide blocks, sign language services, parking lots, etc.) Nursing rooms, baby seats, doorways, doorway directions, guide dogs, slopes, etc.) are marked. In addition, signs for disaster evacuation sites for fires, earthquakes, floods, etc. are written. Therefore, persons such as persons with disabilities can know the location of the dedicated facility / equipment / service from these signs, and also know the entrance / exit of the building and the direction of the entrance / exit at the same time. You can move to the place. Map surface C shown in FIG. 3 is an example of a map in the premises of Hakata Station, where toilets and elevators for persons with disabilities are entered to make transportation easier to use. FIG. 2 is an example in which public facilities / buildings and private facilities / building companies are classified by ground color and their names and sign identification symbols dedicated to persons such as disabled persons are described in a table format. It is easy to understand whether or not there are facilities, equipment, and services dedicated to persons with disabilities in facility buildings and the like, and the utilization of these facilities, equipment, and services can be easily and effectively performed. Alternatively, it can be a criterion for using buildings and facilities. In addition, since the public, private, and public transportations are color-coded for their respective ground colors, it is possible to easily and quickly find facilities and buildings according to the purpose, and to make them easy to use.

[0007]

As described above, according to the present invention, for a disabled person, a pregnant woman, a person with a baby, a deaf person, etc., the existence of a dedicated service facility / equipment and the entrance / exit and direction thereof are marked on a map surface. It became easy to understand by putting in, and it became an easy-to-use and convenient atlas for people with disabilities. In addition, since the evacuation site at the time of disaster is clearly specified, evacuation at the time of disaster is facilitated by the presence of the sign.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a map surface of a wide area map according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a page in which tabular symbols are described in a table format according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a map surface of a road facility in a transportation system according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Map surface B Front ground color-coded page C Map surface 1 Wheelchair public phone sign symbol 2 Unisex wheelchair restroom sign symbol 3 Male wheelchair restroom sign symbol 4 Female wheelchair restroom sign symbol 5 Parking sign symbol for disabled persons 6 Induction chime sign Symbol 7 Sign language service sign symbol 8 Baby carriage lending sign symbol 9 Nursing room sign symbol 10 Baby seat sign symbol 11 Wheelchair elevator sign symbol 12 Parent and child restroom sign symbol 13 Assistance service sign symbol 14 Wheelchair entrance sign symbol 15 Wheelchair entrance sign symbol 16 Nursery room 17 Parent and child restroom sign sign 18 Guide block sign sign 19 Guide dog accompanying sign sign 20 Slope sign sign 21 Disaster evacuation place sign sign

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A map characterized in that a sign indicating the presence of facility equipment such as toilets, telephones, elevators, etc. dedicated to persons with disabilities is entered in the location of the map on which the road, building or transportation system is entered. Book. 2. An atlas, characterized in that a sign indicating the presence of facility equipment such as a toilet, telephone, elevator and the like dedicated to a pregnant woman is written on the map surface on which roads, buildings or transportation means are entered, at the location of the equipment. . 3. A sign indicating the presence of facility equipment such as a restroom, telephone, elevator, etc. dedicated to a disabled person with a caregiver is written on the map on which the road, building or transportation system is entered. Atlas characterized by. 4. A sign indicating the presence of facility equipment such as toilets, telephones, elevators, etc. dedicated to persons with infants is written on the map on which roads, buildings or transportation means are entered. Atlas. 5. The atlas according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a sign of an evacuation site of an earthquake, a fire or a tsunami is entered on a map surface on which roads, buildings or transportation means are entered. 6. The atlas according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein an entrance / exit direction arrow indicating a position of an entrance / exit of a wheelchair in a building / facility or transportation system and a direction of the entrance / exit are written on a map surface. 7. Within a page on a map surface or on a page surface close to the page,
Public facilities, private buildings or private enterprises, and transportation are colored with different ground colors to distinguish them, and the names of the facilities, buildings, and transportations are displayed on the colored surfaces that are classified with different colors. An atlas, characterized by a table form, which indicates the presence of facility equipment exclusively for disabled persons, for pregnant women, for persons with a disability or for persons with a baby with a caregiver.