Wow, very impressive! Thanks for the quick response, and I'll certainly give that podcast a listen. I understand about the accuracy, but I will say this: with Sendero's app, my accuracy was almost alwasy 16 or 33 feet (about 5 to 10 meters) so you might be able to get better than 7 meters in may cases. I don't know how all this works, I am simply letting you know that it may be possible. On Jul 12, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirtti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many 3rd party > apps that you can be launched directly from BSq: TomTom, Navigon, MotionX, > Google Maps, Apple maps etc. Since BlindSquare can run on backgrpund, you > will get best of both worlds. For example Navigon is giving turn-by-turn and > BlindSquare is adding street info, intersections and information about > surrounding places on top of that. In-app turn-by-turn is something that is > planned into future, but superior support for 3rd party apps you might > already have will never go away > > 2) Sure you can. They are saved to iCloud, so they are shared among all your > iOS devices and when switching to new phone, all settings and POIs follow > automatically. > > 3) Yes it does. It announces street addresses with numbers and intersections > both in pedestrian and faster speeds. It can announce intersections in high > speed also > > 4) Pretty close but it varies fro many factors. If you track Foursquare > place, t doesn'teven try to get closer than 16 meters since we don't know > nothing about accuracy of original POI. If you reset lcation for that or > create your own POI, also accuracy is saved to iCloud, in the case that > accuracy of POI and your current accuracy is good, it will guide you just to > the edge of accuracy (like 7 meters). That way it can give it's final > announcement with clockface information about direction > > To get good overview of the app, please listen to this podcast: > http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/blindsquare-feature-packed-navigational-tool-blind-ios-users > > BR, Ilkka, BlindSquare app developer > Lähetetty iPadista > > Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 15.47: > >> Hi all, >> All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and >> clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions: >> >> 1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or >> some business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this >> turn-by-turn (I doubt it) or a "getting warmer" method? >> >> 2. Can I save my own POIs in the app, even without a Foursquare account? If >> I need such an account, can I not have my location broadcast to everyone >> else on Foursquare or Twitter? >> >> 3. Does the app know streets at all? Again, likely not, but you never know. >> >> 4. How is the accuracy? I realize this will vary wildly from place to place, >> and even due to things like weather and where on your person you carry your >> phone, but in general, how close does it get you to destinations? >> >> Thanks in advance for answers to these. I almost got Blindsquare, then I >> started helping to test the Sendero app and found that Blindsquare would be >> redundant. However, I do not plan on buying the Sendero app, especially with >> walking directions coming to Maps in iOS7, so I am once again considering >> Blindsquare. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
