Awesome navigation APP on Android - Dotwalker PRO
Hello guys,I just copy my post from Eyes-free group belowYesterday I tested really great GPS navigation app for the blind on Android, called "Dotwalker PRO".I can say that it is really worth your attention if you're blind like me, or at least a visually impaired. It gives you exactly what you need to know to get to your destination in really great manner. I don't intent to tell everything about it, however I wanna show the main strengths of that stuff. SO lets get start it:You can get turn-by-turn Directions from your current location to the destination, and therefore directions are provided by "Google Maps" API so you get everything as the sighted people would, but in the way, that blind people would appreciate. It will say to you everything as "Google Maps", except that your TTS will inform where these points actually are, acording to the clock directions. In case to be more concrete, I'll give you an example. Imagine that you're standing in some place, but somewhere far away from the street and you're not even sure where you can find one, but by entering some address (I mean your destination, such as "Chocolate Street 3, Wellinghborough", ), you get turn-by-turn directions like this: head east on Sweets Street towards Cookies street, 26 meeters at 3 o'clock. You may ask, what a heck you're talking about buddy? Oh, it's simple, I promise, if you read this carefully, you'll get use to it soon.I don't know have you ever seen the old braille clocks, that can be opened and you can check where the arrow is landing at the time, in case to know hours, but I can instruct you here quickly enough. 12 o'clock means in front of you, 1 - slightly to the right, 2 - a bit more to the right, 3 is exactly 90 degrees on your right - if you would stretch out your right hand to your right. 4 and 5 - these directions are behind, you on your right, so 6 is exactly behind you. 7 and 8 - are behind you on your left, and 9 is exactly on your left. So we have 10 and 11 left. These would be in front of you (still on your left) and the last hour on the clock - 12, is exactly in front of you. So we have a circle there. If it is more simple, you can imagine the circle and divide it into 12 equal parts. In case circle around itself has 360 degrees, we can do the math and get that 1 of our 12 parts consists of 30 degrees, so these clock instructions represents directions in 30 degrees of accuracy. Now when you are more awared what I'm talking about, imagine you are looking straight ahead towards north. So north east are in front of you, diagonally, east are exactly on your right, south - behind, west - on your left side. SO it is mostly the same, but directions, sutch as east, south east and so on, divides this circle around you into 8 parts - 360 / 8 = 45 degrees to the part, so clock directions are even more exact as we can see.Ok, so now we know. What do we ganna do with that? We just buy Dotwalker Pro, go outside and try it out OK OK, I'm joking, firstly read this one till the end to check if it is the stuf you're looking for.So I said it tells the direction to the point, distance and the name of the point. This Software identifies your bearing acording to you movement (it's evaluated by GPS), so if you are standing somewhere, how to be sure where to go? You know GPS direction can't be trusted in case you're not moving... Solution is really simple:Just click on Compass, Approach to point and spin your phone around (it will say direction by clock all the time when your compass direction changes, so you'll be informed, how to turn it to point your phone exactly to the active point). When you'll point your phone exactly to that point, it beeps and says distance in meeters. Oh, and the feature that you sure will be happy about is that when you're standing somewhere and you're not sure where is the street you need to go, this app automatically draws the exact straight line from your location to the street, that you need to go to, so compass will saves the day there certainly.When you at last are on the correct street, you continuesly get further directions, like turn right on jokes street, 74 meeters at 12 o'clock. When you arive to the current point, Application automatically starts to navigate you to another one and informs you about that, just to be sure where to go.I think you are finally excited to check it out, so I don't intent to disturb you and talk about it no longer. Just a fiew more features below and you're good to go:1. Turn-by-turn instructions from "Google Maps";2. Destination can be found in "Google Places", you just need to click a button that says "From Google Places" and you can select the category that you're interested in. After sum time it gives you a lots of nearby places to go, even bus stops;3. It allows you to even create your own custom routes, where directions can't be provide
