Commercial Building Wesley Place gets BindiMaps treatment
Charter Hall’s beautiful new Wesley Place building at 130 Collins Street in Melbourne is our latest commercial building installation. It is just down the road from another BindiMaps location, 150 Collins Street. Wesley Place is the first of what we hope will be many Charter Hall commercial and retail properties that boast the BindiMaps navigation […]
Media goes wild for Bindi in Rockhampton
Our BindiMaps installation at Stockland Rockhampton helped make us famous last month, with both local television stations covering our launch there. The centre was our first installation in Central Queensland, and one of our largest shopping centres so far. Both reports focused on how BindiMaps can make it easier for people who are blind or […]
Vision Australia’s Melbourne Head office is BindiMapped
Vision Australia’s head office in Melbourne is now BindiMapped, providing visitors and clients with the BindiMaps wayfinding and navigation experience. The large facility in Kooyong covers about 6,000 square metres and houses a range of facilities and services for visitors and clients who are blind and vision impaired. BindiMaps is now installed in VA offices […]
Wayfinding touch-screens can spread COVID-19. BindiMaps has a solution
A study in medical journal The Lancet last month found that the COVID 19 virus can last for up to three hours on glass surfaces such as touch-screens, providing a potential problem for shopping centres that use the screens in wayfinding kiosks. Retailers such as Coles and Woolworths who use touch-screens for self-serve checkouts have […]
BindiMaps and COVID-19
A major part of what we do at BindiMaps is to help people with vision impairment get out in the world and mix with others, in shopping centres, educational institutions, public buildings and workplaces. We do it because we want a world where more people can explore, and take part in, their communities and their […]
Stockland Traralgon is BindiMapped
Shoppers in Traralgon, in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley region, can now take advantage of BindiMaps, the latest addition to the BindiMaps location list. The centre, covering 20,000 square meters and more than 60 stores, becomes the fourth major BindiMaps’ Victorian location, and the first in the Gippsland region of the state.
Stockland Rockhampton Shopping Centre joins BindiMaps
Last month we travelled to Rockhampton in Queensland to install BindiMaps at the huge Rockhampton Shopping centre. The centre covers 60,000 square meters and includes more than 150 stores. Stockland Rockhampton is our second major shopping centre in Queensland and our first in the North West. We were fortunate to catch up with some users […]
BindiMaps 2.0 is launched: and it’s faster and better
The BindiMaps team are all working from home during the Coronavirus restrictions, and that hasn’t stopped us working to make BindiMaps better. We’ve just released a new version to the Apple App Store which is the culmination of months of back-room work and lots of testing to improve all our fancy algorithms that drive our […]
Android BindiMaps coming soon
Great news, Android users! We’ve begun production of BindiMaps for Android, and it will hit the Google Play store in the next couple of months. Our Android version will have all the awesome features of our iOS app, and will have the same dedication to guiding you to your destination quickly and easily. It will […]
Shock finding! Sighted people need wayfinding too
BindiMaps was created to solve a specific problem for a specific group of people. We designed our app from the beginning to assist users who are blind and vision impaired navigate unfamiliar indoor spaces, and that won’t change. It’s a problem we’ve thrown ourselves into with passion and energy, and we think we are well […]