[Phoenicians] used a mapping method over 3000 years ago that was quite meaningful to *totally* blind users. It was literally a map without paper.

They assigned names to locations based on the names of parts of the human body. The body was "mapped" to the area so that simply knowing the Phoenician name for the area enabled one to know approximately where it was in relation to other areas (body parts) of the same map. In English, one would call this "the lay of the land", that is, how the body is configured on the ground. #

See also: threatless: Follow It & Shona Kitchen: The City In Man

Related: Bio-graphy & Ubiquity