Yes, BlindSquare has feature called Look Around for that. You can select your
view radius (25m - 2 km) and then point your device to different directions.
You will hear heading, then intersections in that direction (closest first) and
then list of what kindof places you find from that direction.
I'm definitely a fan of structured discovery. However, I appreciate the
ability to do the equivalent of sign reading that my sighted peers enjoy.
Combining technology and alternative techniques works - smile! I'm a satisfied
user of BlindSquare!
On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Ray Foret jr wro
Certainly, in most situations and given enough time, you can probably find what
you want to. However, some destinations are going to be hard to find, or there
will be no one around to ask, or you don't have time to spend trying to sort
things out, or the bus driver will forget your stop, and the
What I mean is that it is possible to observe what is arround you and thus to
find your way to any place you wish even if you don't know the area.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud an
Indeed, I often know the streets but just don'w know where on a street a
destination is. So, I can get to the street, then use Blindsquare to tell me
whre to go from there, or even get into the area and have it tell me. At least,
I imagine I can - I don't currently have $20 to drop on this app,
Hi Alex
Think about this too. You don't always need the turn by turn because a lot of
times you may be going places that you already know, but you want BlindSquare
for the bus stop. I had the situation today. I knew exactly where the place was
that I wanted to go to, but the Dallas area rapid tr
What do you mean about structured discovery?
Lähetetty iPhonesta
Ray Foret jr kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 23.11:
> Me, I'd rather use structured discovery. It's free and let's you go anywhere.
>
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> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
> built-in!
> Sincer
Me, I'd rather use structured discovery. It's free and let's you go anywhere.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Alex Hall w
First, it'd only be two apps, Blindsquare in the background speaking POIs and
streets and your maps/gps app telling you where to go. It sounds combersome,
but if you don't know where you are going, a cane or dog won't help you. True,
once you know a route a dog is good about taking you back to t
Usually 3rd party app has selection for that. To my knowledge, Navigon, Tomtom
and Navigon does.
BlindSquare support also simulation so you can plan your trip beforehand,
lookaround virtually to find bus stops, favourite them and set alerts by
distance. When you are in simulated place, BSq limi
Thank you for this info. IPhone5 and any external device I have tried, reports
best accuracy of 5 meters. I never give instructions about direction if you are
closer than reported accuracy. My strategy is to get "to the edge" of accuracy
to be able to report last direction. So, you should be abl
Gee wizz. Three apps just to get around? Better just to use a cane or guide
dog then right? I mean, three apps just to get around? Ain't that getting
just a bit cumbersome?
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built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefoo
This leads to a question, when launching the third party apps for
navigation, is it specified what type of root to create, driving,
walking, etc? Or does the third party app use whatever is set as the default?
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1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many 3r
Wow, very impressive! Thanks for the quick response, and I'll certainly give
that podcast a listen. I understand about the accuracy, but I will say this:
with Sendero's app, my accuracy was almost alwasy 16 or 33 feet (about 5 to 10
meters) so you might be able to get better than 7 meters in may
1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many 3rd party
apps that you can be launched directly from BSq: TomTom, Navigon, MotionX,
Google Maps, Apple maps etc. Since BlindSquare can run on backgrpund, you will
get best of both worlds. For example Navigon is giving turn-by-tur
Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:
1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or some
business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this turn-by-turn (I
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