Hello, This is Paul Hopewell from near Southampton in the UK. I would like to recommend the 24 July 2020 version of the GPS App Nearby Explorer Online. Most days I use my long cane for a 3 mile or so exercise walk around the streets of my suburban neighbourhood. Before GPS I sometimes used to get lost through lack of attention and had to wait for help from a passerby or head towards traffic noise to hopefully find a recognisable major road. I thus need GPS on my iPhone 8 to tell me which street I am on, what the next intersection is, and sometimes in what compass direction I am heading. I have tried several GPS Apps and am very impressed with the latest version of the free App Nearby Explorer Online. This was updated around 24 July requiring the download of a new map format enabling Nearby Explorer to give excellent information on the street intersections ahead of me with their distance and whether they are to my left or my right. As I approach an intersection it gives me a count down of the remaining distance 50 yards, 30 yards, 20 yards and then promptly announces any new street I have entered. It is very customisable as I can enable or disable speaking of house numbers, street names, compass bearing, approaching intersections and nearby points of interest. It optionally offers turn by turn guidance to a desired locations and you can save and name your current location such as a park entrance and later find it using compass bearing and distance across an open space. If you do not need points of interest you can use it with mobile data turned off. I have set the radius for points of interest to 50 yards so that I am not told about places some distance away . The documentation is excellent. There is a lot I have not yet tried but so far it matches my needs very well and I recommend it. Best regards … Paul Hopewell
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