When you select a target, it reports your distance and clock face to that target. When you were on a bus, were you sitting close to window and your device on the side of the window? You should do that, then device has GPS signal. Otherwise it uses cell tower estimation or even wifi based location that can be inaccurate or even wrong: I have seen that database of wifi locations is usually just okay but if some people have moved, they have moved also that wifi to new address and your location might jump! For this reason I have warning mechanism in BlindSquare if it notices this kind of "jump".
So, please make sure you have clean coordinates on your places you are tracking and make sure you have best possible GPS accuracy when tracking. And let me know when you have tested it more. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote: > I am confused about how to track. I set a place from within my places > which was at an office I work out of. I set it up at my home address. It > reported after I set it up that it was 0 feet; at the time, I ignored that > message. I then got on the bus and while on route, started tracking the > office. I first heard the target address and it reported 1.7 miles. I > assumed that was the distance to the tracking location. However, as we got > closer to it, the distance went up. When I got off the bus, I heard the > distance reported as close to three miles. When I got close to the > location, it reported I was about five feet away, but this occurred on a > previous trip before I had set a location to track. So my question is what > does the distance represent? Is it the distance from my house where I set > the location to the actual location? By the way, when I reached my home on > the return trip, I heard my address announced, as well as the tracked > location of 0 feet. I thought tracking a location meant the closer you > got, the smaller the distance to the location? Please explain how this > works. Thanks. > > Les > On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello! When you have searched the target (by category list, search, recent > places or My Places) and you are on page that shows name, address, phone > number etc. (what information exists for that place), there are two buttons: > > 1) "Start Tracking": BS starts to report constantly distance and clock > face direction where the place is. This is not "turn-by-turn" > 2) "Plan a route": BS finds what navigation apps you have installed and > you can start Navigon, TomTom, MotionX or Apple Maps to navigate to > selected target. BS will stay on background reporting street crossings and > POIs > > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:58 AM, keith weatherly < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> hello, i just bought the blindsquare app today and i was just wondering >> how do i get it to tell me how to get from one point to the next point? for >> example when i come out of my apartment and want to walk to the store >> across the street from the apartment complex or maybe the church a little >> ways down the street. Are there certon settings that i need to use? I was >> riding in the car with a friend and it did anounce when he was at the >> diferent streets as well as the stores in view. I just want to know how i >> can use it for walking and get constent prompt to my destonation. 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