I can tell you what happens there. So, BlindSquare can work inside shopping malls pretty well. Like you know, positioning in iOS devices is not only based on GPS but also cell tower and wifi radios around you. It means, BlindSquare will know your rough position and adapt annoucements according to that.
If distance to the place is below current location accuracy, you will not hear direction and you will hear word "about" before distance. If you increase notification distance, you will hear more places with clockface information. You can also start tracking a place that is - let's say - 150 meters from you. You will probably hear distance and clockface for half of the way there. I'm pretty sure that in the future indoor positioning will get better and better. Couple months ago, Apple acquired a company ( http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/23/apple-buys-indoor-gps-company-wifislam-for-20m) for 20 million dollars who had working prototype on Android devices. Their system uses knowledge of wifi radio signals to get location with accuracy of few meters. In Finland we have startup called Indoor Atlas (http://www.indooratlas.com). With their technology, one can record static magnetic fields inside buildings. You can then use your mobile devices magnetometer to calculate fingerprint and get your location inside that building. So within next few years, it becomes really interesting to have more navigation possibilities also inside buildings! On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > Hello guys > I foundw out something about BlindSquare yesterday that I was most > impressed with. I almost didn't test it out, because I figured no GPS > program would do this anyway. > > Yesterday, I went to Northpark mall to the Apple Store I left BlindSquare > running. It started telling me about a lot of the stores as I was passing. > The only thing is, and I understand why, it didn't tell me left or right > but it did give distance. > > Oh, for those of you on this list like myself who are in the Dallas > metroplex area, they slightly moved the Apple store. It looks enough > different that my poor dog couldn't find it. I had to ask. It's still the > busiest place in the mall. It's three times bigger. > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Jonathan, I have heard rumour that 3rd party applications wouldn't get you > to mayor and it would be shame if Foursquare API's would work that way. I > actually don't know. I don't play so much that I would know from my own > experience. I found some conversations that says that 3rd party apps has > just the same features: > https://getsatisfaction.com/foursquare/topics/3rd_party_app_checkins_vs_official_app > > I have earned my badges by using BlindSquare. > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > >> Hi Ilkka, can you earn mayorships if you check in with Blindsquare, or do >> you have to use the official app to earn them? >> Jonathan Mosen >> Mosen Consulting >> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training >> http://Mosen.org >> >> On 9/07/2013, at 4:48 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Foursquare itself is a game millions of people plays around the world. >> Blindsquare (and now also Seeing Eye) benefits of the fact that this >> crowdsourced game creates worlds largest active register of places around >> the world. If some place is missing, someone playing Foursquare will add it >> and give it category + address information, because they earn points in a >> game! >> >> If you like to play this game, BlindSquare has full support for it too. >> You can also check-in to places without publishing information about your >> location to anyone. You still earn points and hear your score and who of >> your Foursquare friends are in front of you. >> >> I know some visually impaired are friends in Foursquare and share their >> checkins. They will get push notifications about friends checkins and get >> to know if they are near each other. >> >> I have plans to have even more benefits if you start playing game while >> using BlindSquare. For example, from your check-ins, BlindSquare could >> learn what type of restaurants you tend to like and suggestions will get >> better and better. >> >> I once more want to say that it is not needed to play Foursquare or even >> have Foursquare account to use BlindSquare. It is just an extra twist and >> kind of cool to be able to do checkin by shaking the device or even get you >> automatically checked in places you have given this permission. >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Matt Dierckens >> <matt.dierck...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Mike. >>> With foursquare, you can do something called, checking in. >>> This means, you check in to the place,and you get points for checking in >>> to the place. Sometimes, places like stores or restaurants will give you >>> specials for checking in with 4square. >>> >>> On 2013-07-08, at 12:06 PM, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Hello Matt, >>> > >>> > Since I have never used BlindSquare or 4Square, I do not know what you >>> mean when you talk about "checking in" to a place. Could you clarify or >>> refer me to some explanatory information. >>> > >>> > Thanks and best regards! >>> > >>> > Mike >>> > >>> > On 8,Jul,2013, at 5:25 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi Mike. >>> >> No, you do not need an account with 4square to use the app. The only >>> reason you would need it is if you anted to check in at the place you were >>> going to. >>> >> On 2013-07-08, at 11:11 AM, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> I really enjoyed reading your posting, and I have one question: >>> >>> >>> >>> Before using BlindSquare, do you need to have an account with >>> 4Square? 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