Re: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-22 Thread Regina Alvarado
I will be checking out the BlindSquare podcast later today, but how do I run 
BlindSquare together with google maps for turn by turn? 

Reggie and Allegra

On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote:

As I discovered earlier today, the latest release of Google Maps 2.0 is 
accessible and works great with Blind Square. Pick a destination in Blind 
Square and select plan a route and use Google Maps. Google Maps now has spoken 
turn-by-turn directions in walking mode.


Richard
(Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen)

On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi
 
 2. My understanding is that you need another GPS app for turn by turn 
 directions. If you don`t have Navigon, you don`t get turn by turn Navigation. 
 Blind Square will announce streets name and Point of Interests live as you 
 go, but not tell you where to turn right or left.
 
 Don´t know if Google Maps or Tom Tom or other works well, but Navigon should 
 work. Someone says there is roomers that Apple Maps will get turn by turn 
 directions, but that we just have to wait …..
 
 Take care
 
 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 15:56 skrev Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com:
 
 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 13:50 skrev Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca:
 
 Hi Donna,
 
 1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.
 
 2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from
 other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5
 and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything
 different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running
 as well while I was using BlindSquare.
 
 3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no
 information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection.
 The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of
 detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently
 BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not
 looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard.
 
 5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will
 give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag
 behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and
 mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, that
 your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street
 announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the best
 results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so that
 the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone
 pointing the way I am going.
 
 I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight
 from 3 to 5 *smile*.
 
 If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get
 turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription
 which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is in
 my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS long
 before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it
 comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also easy
 to set your own points.
 
 
 Regards,
 Sieghard
 
 -Original Message-
 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
 Of Donna
 Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Question regarding blind square
 
 Hi
 
 I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple
 questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 
 
 1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to
 obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my
 iPhone and running for blind square to work?
 
 2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like
 TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps
 installed and open and running while blind square is in use?
 
 3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4
 way intersections?
 
 5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?
 
 Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs. 
 
 Thanks in advance. 
 
 Donna
 
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Re: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-22 Thread Richard Turner
Launch Blind Square and find a point of interest you want turn-by-turn 
derections to and double tap on it. Then flick right until you find an option 
called plan a route and double tap that. Then flick until you find the google 
maps app as one of the choices you are offered. Double tap it and make your 
selection of the route you want and finally double tap on the navigate button.
You also need to be sure you have Blind Square set to allow background 
operation which is under Other, Setings in Blind Square.


Richard
(Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen)

On Jul 22, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Regina Alvarado reggie.alvar...@gmail.com wrote:

 I will be checking out the BlindSquare podcast later today, but how do I run 
 BlindSquare together with google maps for turn by turn? 
 
 Reggie and Allegra
 
 On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 As I discovered earlier today, the latest release of Google Maps 2.0 is 
 accessible and works great with Blind Square. Pick a destination in Blind 
 Square and select plan a route and use Google Maps. Google Maps now has 
 spoken turn-by-turn directions in walking mode.
 
 
 Richard
 (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen)
 
 On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi
 
 2. My understanding is that you need another GPS app for turn by turn 
 directions. If you don`t have Navigon, you don`t get turn by turn 
 Navigation. Blind Square will announce streets name and Point of Interests 
 live as you go, but not tell you where to turn right or left.
 
 Don´t know if Google Maps or Tom Tom or other works well, but Navigon should 
 work. Someone says there is roomers that Apple Maps will get turn by turn 
 directions, but that we just have to wait …..
 
 Take care
 
 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 15:56 skrev Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com:
 
 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 13:50 skrev Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca:
 
 Hi Donna,
 
 1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.
 
 2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from
 other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5
 and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything
 different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running
 as well while I was using BlindSquare.
 
 3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no
 information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection.
 The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of
 detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently
 BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not
 looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard.
 
 5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will
 give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag
 behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and
 mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, 
 that
 your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street
 announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the 
 best
 results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so 
 that
 the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone
 pointing the way I am going.
 
 I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight
 from 3 to 5 *smile*.
 
 If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get
 turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription
 which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is 
 in
 my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS 
 long
 before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it
 comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also 
 easy
 to set your own points.
 
 
 Regards,
 Sieghard
 
 -Original Message-
 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
 Of Donna
 Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Question regarding blind square
 
 Hi
 
 I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple
 questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 
 
 1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to
 obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my
 iPhone and running for blind square to work?
 
 2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like
 TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps
 installed and open and running while blind square is in use?
 
 3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4
 way intersections?
 
 5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?
 
 

Re: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-21 Thread Terje Strømberg

18. juli 2013 kl. 13:50 skrev Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca:

 Hi Donna,
 
 1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.
 
 2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from
 other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5
 and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything
 different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running
 as well while I was using BlindSquare.
 
 3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no
 information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection.
 The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of
 detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently
 BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not
 looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard.
 
 5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will
 give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag
 behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and
 mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, that
 your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street
 announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the best
 results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so that
 the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone
 pointing the way I am going.
 
 I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight
 from 3 to 5 *smile*.
 
 If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get
 turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription
 which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is in
 my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS long
 before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it
 comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also easy
 to set your own points.
 
 
 Regards,
 Sieghard
 
 -Original Message-
 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
 Of Donna
 Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Question regarding blind square
 
 Hi
 
 I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple
 questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 
 
 1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to
 obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my
 iPhone and running for blind square to work?
 
 2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like
 TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps
 installed and open and running while blind square is in use?
 
 3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4
 way intersections?
 
 5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?
 
 Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs. 
 
 Thanks in advance. 
 
 Donna
 
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Re: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-21 Thread Andy Baracco
You do not need to use 4square to use Blind square. It simply uses their POI 
data.  Blind Square at this time does not offer turn by turn directions on 
routes, but you can use an app like Navigon or Tom Tom for the turn by turn 
directions, and run BS in the background to get the automatic announcement 
of POI's and approaching cross streets.  BS will announce approaching cross 
streets but if you are in a vehicle and moving fast, it may lag behind your 
actual position, or miss some altogether.


Andy


-Original Message- 
From: Donna

Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Question regarding blind square

Hi

I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple 
questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb.


1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to 
obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my 
iPhone and running for blind square to work?


2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like 
TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps 
installed and open and running while blind square is in use?


3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4 
way intersections?


5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?

Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs.

Thanks in advance.

Donna

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Re: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-21 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi

2. My understanding is that you need another GPS app for turn by turn 
directions. If you don`t have Navigon, you don`t get turn by turn Navigation. 
Blind Square will announce streets name and Point of Interests live as you go, 
but not tell you where to turn right or left.

Don´t know if Google Maps or Tom Tom or other works well, but Navigon should 
work. Someone says there is roomers that Apple Maps will get turn by turn 
directions, but that we just have to wait …..

Take care
  

18. juli 2013 kl. 15:56 skrev Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com:

 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 13:50 skrev Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca:
 
 Hi Donna,
 
 1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.
 
 2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from
 other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5
 and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything
 different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running
 as well while I was using BlindSquare.
 
 3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no
 information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection.
 The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of
 detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently
 BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not
 looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard.
 
 5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will
 give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag
 behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and
 mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, that
 your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street
 announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the best
 results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so that
 the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone
 pointing the way I am going.
 
 I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight
 from 3 to 5 *smile*.
 
 If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get
 turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription
 which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is in
 my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS long
 before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it
 comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also easy
 to set your own points.
 
 
 Regards,
 Sieghard
 
 -Original Message-
 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
 Of Donna
 Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Question regarding blind square
 
 Hi
 
 I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple
 questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 
 
 1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to
 obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my
 iPhone and running for blind square to work?
 
 2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like
 TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps
 installed and open and running while blind square is in use?
 
 3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4
 way intersections?
 
 5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?
 
 Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs. 
 
 Thanks in advance. 
 
 Donna
 
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Re: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-21 Thread Richard Turner
As I discovered earlier today, the latest release of Google Maps 2.0 is 
accessible and works great with Blind Square. Pick a destination in Blind 
Square and select plan a route and use Google Maps. Google Maps now has spoken 
turn-by-turn directions in walking mode.


Richard
(Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen)

On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi
 
 2. My understanding is that you need another GPS app for turn by turn 
 directions. If you don`t have Navigon, you don`t get turn by turn Navigation. 
 Blind Square will announce streets name and Point of Interests live as you 
 go, but not tell you where to turn right or left.
 
 Don´t know if Google Maps or Tom Tom or other works well, but Navigon should 
 work. Someone says there is roomers that Apple Maps will get turn by turn 
 directions, but that we just have to wait …..
 
 Take care
 
 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 15:56 skrev Terje Strømberg terjestrmb...@gmail.com:
 
 
 18. juli 2013 kl. 13:50 skrev Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca:
 
 Hi Donna,
 
 1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.
 
 2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from
 other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5
 and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything
 different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running
 as well while I was using BlindSquare.
 
 3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no
 information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection.
 The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of
 detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently
 BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not
 looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard.
 
 5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will
 give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag
 behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and
 mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, that
 your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street
 announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the best
 results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so that
 the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone
 pointing the way I am going.
 
 I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight
 from 3 to 5 *smile*.
 
 If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get
 turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription
 which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is in
 my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS long
 before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it
 comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also easy
 to set your own points.
 
 
 Regards,
 Sieghard
 
 -Original Message-
 From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
 Of Donna
 Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
 To: viphone@googlegroups.com
 Subject: Question regarding blind square
 
 Hi
 
 I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple
 questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 
 
 1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to
 obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my
 iPhone and running for blind square to work?
 
 2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like
 TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps
 installed and open and running while blind square is in use?
 
 3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4
 way intersections?
 
 5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?
 
 Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs. 
 
 Thanks in advance. 
 
 Donna
 
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RE: Question regarding blind square

2013-07-18 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Donna,

1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.

2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from
other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5
and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything
different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running
as well while I was using BlindSquare.

3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no
information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection.
The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of
detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently
BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not
looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard.

5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will
give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag
behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and
mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, that
your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street
announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the best
results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so that
the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone
pointing the way I am going.

I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight
from 3 to 5 *smile*.

If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get
turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription
which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is in
my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS long
before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it
comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also easy
to set your own points.


Regards,
Sieghard

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Donna
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Question regarding blind square

Hi

I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple
questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 

1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to
obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my
iPhone and running for blind square to work?

2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like
TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps
installed and open and running while blind square is in use?

3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4
way intersections?

5. Can blind square be used on public transportation?

Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs. 

Thanks in advance. 

Donna

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