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Principles for deploying the units 

Pictoform® guideline system consists of a series of paving stones with the declared intention of assisting the blind and visually impaired in traversing the city.

The paving stones are appliccable for a lot of purposes. They can form a guideline, mark - by the use of a dome area - the shift, for instance from a sidewalk to the roadway, indicate bus stops etc.

Particularly the traffic junctions and town centers with their open squares and pedestrian streets may need the guideline system.

Pictoform® is placed following natural courses and tangible to foot and cane.
Both the shape of the patterns and the returned sound of the mobility cane's touching the stones, are a part of guiding the blind and visually impaired.

In planning the guidelines, a few important principles must be observed. The system must be able to show a secure route, the guideline, and a secure stop - the dome area attention field - which informs of a change. This change might be that the guideline has come to an end, but it can also signify a change of direction,  a pedestrian crossing, a sale of tickets, an elevator or similar, whereupon the guideline is resumed.

There must be enough room on both sides of the guideline.
It should be traversable in both directions, thus needing an attention field in both ends.

An attention field can be established without a guideline, but the line cannot exist without the attention field.