Coming soon to Android and iOS
Find your way, your way.
Directionary is a community-driven route-learning and wayfinding app for people with visual impairments. Create, share and learn routes using directions, clues and landmarks.
- Android and iOSComing soon
- Community-contributed routesCreated and shared by the community, including people with visual impairments
- Developed in collaborationGuide Dogs Singapore
Key features
Three ways to work with route knowledge.
Map Library
Discover and explore routes contributed by the community.
Create Routes
Record routes using directions, clues and landmarks.
Learn Routes
Review route information to build familiarity before travelling.
How it works
Directionary is community-driven. People with visual impairments do not only use routes; they create and share them too.
Create
People record routes they know, using directions, clues and landmarks.
Share
Routes are shared with the community so that others can find them.
Learn
Others review a route’s information to build familiarity before they travel.
Our approach
Directionary draws on orientation and mobility (O&M) principles. Routes are structured using directions, clues and landmarks.
- Directions
- Instructions describing where to move.
- Clues
- Environmental and sensory information that helps someone recognise their surroundings.
- Landmarks
- Recognisable reference points that help someone orient themselves.
Directionary complements orientation and mobility training and existing mobility skills. It does not replace them, does not provide real-time obstacle detection and does not guarantee route accuracy or safety. Read the Terms of Use
About Directionary
Directionary began as a design initiative exploring how route knowledge could be made more accessible to people with visual impairments. It is developed in collaboration with Guide Dogs Singapore.
Read more about the project