I sometimes use blind square in combination with Motion, Motion for turn by turn, and blind square for everything else. Blindsquare is now $30 I believe.
Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 [email protected] Introduction to the Macintosh Operating system and voiceover course available now. Take advantage of our 10% discount for the month of June. Spots are limited, sign up here http://blindaccesstraining.com/training-courses/ On Jun 26, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Jessica D <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of my blind friends are talking about blind Square. When comparing both > applications, which one would you say is more worth it. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 26, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Jessica, I'm along - time user of motion X GPS Drive. I really like this >> app. In summary, I trust it. It's never failed me yet. Now, when you >> initially purchased it, it will cost you around one dollar. After that, for >> the voice guidance, you need to subscribe annually. It costs either nine or >> $10, depending on whether you want automatic subscription updates or not. I >> prefer the manual route, since I can control the updates. After all, there >> may be one that is in excess will. That hasn't happened yet. Make sure you >> get the app called motion X GPS Drive. There is another one called motion >> GPS and that is not accessible. I do like BlindSquare in combination with >> Google maps, but I find motion X to be my favorite commercial GPS >> application. One thing I like about it is you can insert stops along your >> route. I did this recently when our son needed to be picked up at the train >> station. We were going to someone's house for dinner, but we pick up our son >> first and I was able to insert this into the route before going on to the >> individuals home. That's a really nice feature. Anyway, I think you will >> like the app, but if you have more questions feel free to ask. Getting to >> the menu can be a little tricky, but I learned it is at the bottom right of >> the screen. Once activating the menu, you can choose all the relevant >> options and they work fine. Good luck. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Sense scout maps has just about become unusable, and I've heard a lot of >>> good things about motionX gps, I wanted to get some feedback from other >>> people on this list who may have used it. I looked at on applevis, but the >>> info/reviews seem to be outdated sense there seem to be several updates to >>> it sense those were posted, but from the reviews I read, everybody seemed >>> to have nothing but good things to say about, and I love the fact that it >>> reads street names, something scout does, but it refuses to read POI's >>> anymore, and just reads them as this huge string of characters that doesn't >>> mean anything. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
