I also noticed today you need to have your phone with the front facing you and the back facing the way you are walking. It makes sence since the app was written for sited persons. I was on a bus and when I had the front of the phone facing the bus the compuss red the direction of the back of the bus and things were not announced properly and visa versa when I turned the phone around so the back was facing the front of the bus the compuss red proterly and upcoming streets also. to verify I was on a 6 lane highway 3 lanes each way and I then turned the back of the phone to face out the side window of the bus, and I kept getting crossing xxx highway with xxx being the name of the highway I was traveling south on, and the back of the phone was facing west.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jenine Stanley Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 13:54 To: [email protected] Subject: More on Apple Maps and Watch I took the suggestion to move my phone closer so it wasn’t being shielded by my body when walking today and that seems to have done the trick. The GPS still is a bit off for my liking but that’s more the app than the hardware. It also indicated a point of interest today that it didn’t yesterday which was promising. The turns and directions were in sync today, both phone and Watch and were given much closer to the turns. Checking the Watch to see how far you are from said turn still requires stopping. I tested this both walking and stopped. when walking the older measurement stays on screen for a while and it takes several seconds to recalibrate. When stopping, things catch up to each other nicely by the time I drop the guide dog harness handle and activate the Watch. I’m really curious to see what say, Blind Square, will do with this capability. How about an app for just the cross streets. It could use Apple Maps and sync with the iPhone to simply give the haptic when you are within the standard 70 to 30 feet of an intersection then the street layout would be spoken. The potential is certainly there. Jenine Stanley [email protected] -- 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.
