Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
I have both and you can link the 4square with blind square! Blind square I think gives a lot more info than 4square with audio and direct! Heather -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi Yes. With BS you get both distance and direction to the venues. You can also save your own places to search for later. BS will also tell about nearby street crossings and estimated addresses. -- mr. M01510 guide Loadstone-GPS Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 0C1F 6A76 DC9D DD58 3383 8B5D 0E76 9600 B784 D02 Mary Ellen Sanchez kirjoitti Hello I had a question about blind square. My questins is this. if I have the four square installed would blind square be worth getting or should I just use the four square app only? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Can you create points of interest? I. e. your home, job site? Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi all, Pardon my ignorance about BS but I just purchased an IPod touch generation 4. I hope to learn all gestures and then decide what phone I'll purchase. Anyway can someone give more info on BS. Is it an IDevice application? Price? Anyone have link or URL? Thanks so much. Ann o - Original Message - From: Ari Moisio ar...@iki.fi To: Mary Ellen Sanchez sanchez.maryel...@gmail.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:28 AM Subject: RE: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Hi Yes. With BS you get both distance and direction to the venues. You can also save your own places to search for later. BS will also tell about nearby street crossings and estimated addresses. -- mr. M01510 guide Loadstone-GPS Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 0C1F 6A76 DC9D DD58 3383 8B5D 0E76 9600 B784 D02 Mary Ellen Sanchez kirjoitti Hello I had a question about blind square. My questins is this. if I have the four square installed would blind square be worth getting or should I just use the four square app only? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Can you create points of interest? I. e. your home, job site? Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
HI. I used to check in with blind square by shaking the phone and then shaking it again. this isn't working. How do we now check in with blind square? or is this not possible? thanks God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 23/01/2013, at 5:28 PM, Ari Moisio ar...@iki.fi wrote: Hi Yes. With BS you get both distance and direction to the venues. You can also save your own places to search for later. BS will also tell about nearby street crossings and estimated addresses. -- mr. M01510 guide Loadstone-GPS Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 0C1F 6A76 DC9D DD58 3383 8B5D 0E76 9600 B784 D02 Mary Ellen Sanchez kirjoitti Hello I had a question about blind square. My questins is this. if I have the four square installed would blind square be worth getting or should I just use the four square app only? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Can you create points of interest? I. e. your home, job site? Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Can you create points of interest? I. e. your home, job site? Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Thank you Grant! I am truly a novice when it comes to GPS, so I will definitely take advantage of your podcast. Reggie -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far No, there are no turn by turn directions though you can monitor a location as to its distance and direction. I'll try to put together a podcast or a tutorial for this app presently. I'll admit it can be a little confusing at first. Grant On 1/20/13, Ketan Kothari muktake...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, After reading such wonderful reviews of the app I purchased it but am confused as to how do I use it. I want to know whether using google maps with this app, can I have turn by turn directions? I don't use foresquare and hence I would like to know as to how do I use it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. With regards, Ketan -Original Message- From: Les Kriegler Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Yes, it is a payday. When I purchased it, it was $14.99. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Fazil urdu...@telus.net wrote: Hi. Is Blindsquare a paid app? - Original Message - From: Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Yes you can. You have the vast collection of POIs from Foursquare but you can also make your own POIs. Furthermore, you can monitor a spot by entering its address rather than going there first and marking the spot. That likely won't be quite as accurate but it should still get you within a few meters of the destination. With Navigon providing turn by turn directions in the background and BlindSquare announcing nearby POIs, heading, distance from my destination and so forth, I feel I have a fairly competitive set of navigation tools on hand. Grant On 1/22/13, Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com wrote: Can you create points of interest? I. e. your home, job site? Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hello I had a question about blind square. My questins is this. if I have the four square installed would blind square be worth getting or should I just use the four square app only? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Can you create points of interest? I. e. your home, job site? Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:49 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Truthfully I suggest just getting outside and walking around your neighborhood with the app running. It will do the work for you. It will start telling you whats nearby. After a while you can cutsomize it by letting it know things your not interested in hearing about just buy turning the category on or off, simple toggles. The other setting you need to play with after a bit is the distance setting. This says ow many feet you want to look ahead. Shortening the distance it looks ahead can help sometimes when you just want to know what is close to you. Another setting is the way it tells you information about direction. You can decide if you want the area described as a clock face, or compass directions or where things are in degrees. Don't worry abou tthis just run it and after a bit you will decide how you want things set. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi Krister. I wonder if your using an iPhone 4. I have heard about this slowness from iPhone 4 users but I neverr tried it when I had the 4. Now I have the 5 and don't find this. I wouldn't compare it to treker because it is not a full blown gps app but as a pair of eyes to tell you whats around you it beats the rest hands down. Yes once in a while it tells you of things behind you which is ok by me because gps isn't perfect and your location at any given time can be wrong. This should improve when the new sattlelights go up. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
I have it on my phone but frankly I don't think you actually need it. Not 100% sure. Waiting until it gets a bit warmer is a very good idea since its hard to be positive about anything when your freezing! Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi, I use a 4S which should be a little faster than the 4. /Krister 21 jan 2013 kl. 14:07 skrev Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com: Hi Krister. I wonder if your using an iPhone 4. I have heard about this slowness from iPhone 4 users but I neverr tried it when I had the 4. Now I have the 5 and don't find this. I wouldn't compare it to treker because it is not a full blown gps app but as a pair of eyes to tell you whats around you it beats the rest hands down. Yes once in a while it tells you of things behind you which is ok by me because gps isn't perfect and your location at any given time can be wrong. This should improve when the new sattlelights go up. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
I am sorry for this question, but I have never worked with a GPS. I have had Blind Square for a while now, but I have no idea where to even start with it. Can someone give me starting instruction off list or is there a podcast somewhere that is basic? Thank you, and pardon my rudeness, I did not thank all of you for the help with the newbie podcasts I asked about yesterday so I will here. Reggie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
I would like to thank you very much for your post. I have been wondering about it, but thought, like you did, it wouldn't be useful to me. I'm very excited about it now. I have long struggled with what is best to use and all that you mention is so true of other apps. Thanks again. Kristeen On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Grant, any chance of you're putting together a podcast with this app so we can hear it in action? Fred Olver - Original Message - From: Kristeen Hughes khwi...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far I would like to thank you very much for your post. I have been wondering about it, but thought, like you did, it wouldn't be useful to me. I'm very excited about it now. I have long struggled with what is best to use and all that you mention is so true of other apps. Thanks again. Kristeen On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
I think you need 4square if you want to check in on 4square from Blind Square. Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far I have it on my phone but frankly I don't think you actually need it. Not 100% sure. Waiting until it gets a bit warmer is a very good idea since its hard to be positive about anything when your freezing! Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Dear Friends, After reading such wonderful reviews of the app I purchased it but am confused as to how do I use it. I want to know whether using google maps with this app, can I have turn by turn directions? I don't use foresquare and hence I would like to know as to how do I use it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. With regards, Ketan -Original Message- From: Les Kriegler Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Yes, it is a payday. When I purchased it, it was $14.99. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Fazil urdu...@telus.net wrote: Hi. Is Blindsquare a paid app? - Original Message - From: Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi It should be possible within BS although i use FS because it's FB connection. Look for settings and shake phone to check or something similar. -- mr. M01510 guide Loadstone-GPS Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 0C1F 6A76 DC9D DD58 3383 8B5D 0E76 9600 B784 D02 Andy Baracco kirjoitti I think you need 4square if you want to check in on 4square from Blind Square. Andy -Original Message- From: Don Breda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 5:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far I have it on my phone but frankly I don't think you actually need it. Not 100% sure. Waiting until it gets a bit warmer is a very good idea since its hard to be positive about anything when your freezing! Don -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi There is a setting to make BS tell your current address when you shake the phone. Note that BS as all other IOS navigation apps i have tested so far will happily tell your current address even if you are hundreds of meters away from nearest road. -- mr. M01510 guide Loadstone-GPS Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 0C1F 6A76 DC9D DD58 3383 8B5D 0E76 9600 B784 D02 Krister Ekstrom kirjoitti Hi, Just to balance it all up a bit i will now come with my not so positive opinion of this app. I actually tried it here in a very small town in Sweden. I must say that i'm rather dissapointed actually. If i compare it to trekker, something you maybe shouldn't do, i'll have to say that the Trekker is much speedier when delivering info about where you are after having turned into a street. It took a long time, a minute or more for Blindsquare to tell me what street i was on. Maybe it's the openmap thingy, something i don't like at all, or maybe it's user error or something but that's what i have experienced. Furthermore at times Blindsquare gets very, very verbose and starts speaking of shops and fasilities that aren't even close to where i am, sometimes even behind me, i don't understand the need for that. I can in theory see and appreciate its goods, but we're just not there yet, if we ever get there. Now having said all this, it could be user error, that is me not knowing every aspect of how this program is operated, in which case i would be willing to learn. /Krister 20 jan 2013 kl. 15:21 skrev Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com: I couldn't help but chime in here to further praise BlindSquare. I have used every gps out there even trekker for packmate which never saw the light of day. BlindSquare is unbelievable! What it really is is not so much a gps program like navigon but really the best! pair of eyes bar none a blind person can have. After all that is what we really miss most of the time what stores are we passing, what street are we approaching etc. I live in New York city, in the heart of midtown manhattan and let me tell you I have found out about more things in my neighborhood that I never knew were there with Blindsquare then all the gps apps, restaurant apps restaurant menu apps etc. put together. Its truly amazing! I only wish I had made the time to nominate it for the appleviz awards for 2012 because unfortunately this app I feel has been very much overlooked. I tended to overlook it as well when it first came out and I truly regret that. While I am no fan of 4square, the concept of using things like 4square to provide info is a great! one. Companies like Sendero, navigon mosionX pay big fees to companies like navtech for POI data and so many times that data is quite inaccurate very outdated and to say the least incomplete. The approach BlindSquare takes to POI info makes so much sense because the information is always being updated by people like you and I visiting these places. Just my opinion but if you have been on the fence take a look at this app, give it the attention it deserves and I can't imagine you will regret it. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
No, there are no turn by turn directions though you can monitor a location as to its distance and direction. I'll try to put together a podcast or a tutorial for this app presently. I'll admit it can be a little confusing at first. Grant On 1/20/13, Ketan Kothari muktake...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, After reading such wonderful reviews of the app I purchased it but am confused as to how do I use it. I want to know whether using google maps with this app, can I have turn by turn directions? I don't use foresquare and hence I would like to know as to how do I use it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. With regards, Ketan -Original Message- From: Les Kriegler Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 4:55 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Yes, it is a payday. When I purchased it, it was $14.99. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Fazil urdu...@telus.net wrote: Hi. Is Blindsquare a paid app? - Original Message - From: Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
I couldn't help but chime in here to further praise BlindSquare. I have used every gps out there even trekker for packmate which never saw the light of day. BlindSquare is unbelievable! What it really is is not so much a gps program like navigon but really the best! pair of eyes bar none a blind person can have. After all that is what we really miss most of the time what stores are we passing, what street are we approaching etc. I live in New York city, in the heart of midtown manhattan and let me tell you I have found out about more things in my neighborhood that I never knew were there with Blindsquare then all the gps apps, restaurant apps restaurant menu apps etc. put together. Its truly amazing! I only wish I had made the time to nominate it for the appleviz awards for 2012 because unfortunately this app I feel has been very much overlooked. I tended to overlook it as well when it first came out and I truly regret that. While I am no fan of 4square, the concept of using things like 4square to provide info is a great! one. Companies like Sendero, navigon mosionX pay big fees to companies like navtech for POI data and so many times that data is quite inaccurate very outdated and to say the least incomplete. The approach BlindSquare takes to POI info makes so much sense because the information is always being updated by people like you and I visiting these places. Just my opinion but if you have been on the fence take a look at this app, give it the attention it deserves and I can't imagine you will regret it. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Now this is a testament with as packed in as it can be in places like New York! Stores on top of stores and such! I'll have to give blind square a try next time I'm in Toronto and see how it does, but I like it for our city as well, have learned a thing or two about stuff I didn't even know was around, which is very nice. I've had sighted people tell me they didn't know where a place was when I know darn well it was in a certain plaza just not exactly where and they can read the darn signs! But blind square got us there right up to the door.. well, that and the dogs! Caitlyn On 2013-01-20, at 9:21 AM, Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't help but chime in here to further praise BlindSquare. I have used every gps out there even trekker for packmate which never saw the light of day. BlindSquare is unbelievable! What it really is is not so much a gps program like navigon but really the best! pair of eyes bar none a blind person can have. After all that is what we really miss most of the time what stores are we passing, what street are we approaching etc. I live in New York city, in the heart of midtown manhattan and let me tell you I have found out about more things in my neighborhood that I never knew were there with Blindsquare then all the gps apps, restaurant apps restaurant menu apps etc. put together. Its truly amazing! I only wish I had made the time to nominate it for the appleviz awards for 2012 because unfortunately this app I feel has been very much overlooked. I tended to overlook it as well when it first came out and I truly regret that. While I am no fan of 4square, the concept of using things like 4square to provide info is a great! one. Companies like Sendero, navigon mosionX pay big fees to companies like navtech for POI data and so many times that data is quite inaccurate very outdated and to say the least incomplete. The approach BlindSquare takes to POI info makes so much sense because the information is always being updated by people like you and I visiting these places. Just my opinion but if you have been on the fence take a look at this app, give it the attention it deserves and I can't imagine you will regret it. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi, You are correct. However, just a note this has only just came in in the latest version. Sent from Brett's iPhone On 21/01/2013, at 6:30 AM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi. Is Blindsquare a paid app? - Original Message - From: Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Slowing IPhone? Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Hi listers The other day, I read a comment on Twitter regarding how the new BlindSquare update really really slows down the IPhone5 but how accurate is this for you guys? Thanks for info. Enviado desde mi iPhone El 20/01/2013, a las 01:23 a.m., Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com escribió: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Excellent points Don, I have no idea what finally made me decide to buy the app but I definitely never would have considered using it in the past. I never use FourSquare, and I didn't imagine the app would be that much different from other blindness-specific GPS apps. But within the first few minutes of using it, I realized that it truly was a different paradigm and in general, gives me the information I want to know. I'm sure you're right, that getting data from Foursquare yields information other maps simply don't know about. If only iOS allowed us to try apps before purchasing them, BlindSquare would have been on my phone a lot sooner. Grant On 1/20/13, Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't help but chime in here to further praise BlindSquare. I have used every gps out there even trekker for packmate which never saw the light of day. BlindSquare is unbelievable! What it really is is not so much a gps program like navigon but really the best! pair of eyes bar none a blind person can have. After all that is what we really miss most of the time what stores are we passing, what street are we approaching etc. I live in New York city, in the heart of midtown manhattan and let me tell you I have found out about more things in my neighborhood that I never knew were there with Blindsquare then all the gps apps, restaurant apps restaurant menu apps etc. put together. Its truly amazing! I only wish I had made the time to nominate it for the appleviz awards for 2012 because unfortunately this app I feel has been very much overlooked. I tended to overlook it as well when it first came out and I truly regret that. While I am no fan of 4square, the concept of using things like 4square to provide info is a great! one. Companies like Sendero, navigon mosionX pay big fees to companies like navtech for POI data and so many times that data is quite inaccurate very outdated and to say the least incomplete. The approach BlindSquare takes to POI info makes so much sense because the information is always being updated by people like you and I visiting these places. Just my opinion but if you have been on the fence take a look at this app, give it the attention it deserves and I can't imagine you will regret it. Don -- Don Breda don.br...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Thanks for the correction Les. I was pretty sure that you could find an exact street address, but after posting my review I had a quick look and couldn't find the option. Wanted to make sure I wasn't making claims that weren't true. ;) Thanks for confirming that yes, you can look for exact street addresses. On 1/20/13, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Yes, it is a payday. When I purchased it, it was $14.99. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Fazil urdu...@telus.net wrote: Hi. Is Blindsquare a paid app? - Original Message - From: Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. Cheers. On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
That is the cost today as well. I purchased it after the conversation here to try and work with it. :) Thanks, laura Ann On Jan 20, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it is a payday. When I purchased it, it was $14.99. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
Thank you for the review. I guess I'll have to acquire and try Blind Square. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 20/01/2013, at 18:23, Grant Hardy grantha...@gmail.com wrote: I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a nice bonus. No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device is locked or while you're in another navigation app. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness specific GPS device will be there for me. Grant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
