Here's some more clarification on Navigon and Around Me, just to keep information on these apps current in this group and fill in some gaps in this particular thread. I have used Navigon when in the car with family. The directions are spoken out as you drive, and Navigon has been flawless in my experience in this regard. I have tested this app in the car extensively. Now, some of you may be asking, why do I care how well Navigon performs in the car? Well, you may be in a car with people who are not sure what direction to head when going to an unfamiliar place. These people may not be skilled with using GPS devices. By using Navigon's voice guidance feature as you drive, you might just save your sighted companions a lot of trouble. Their need to get better directions is fulfilled, and you prevent them from getting lost. Just something to keep in mind. I also find Navigon to be useful when looking for POI's. Around Me is a great POI app, but Navigon tends to group POI's differently. And I have found some POI's in Navigon that do not appear in Around Me. The differences in both these app can be seen when examining each app's categories. Let's take Around Me's first. We have Apple retail stores, banks/ATM, bars, coffee shops, favorites, gas stations, hospitals, hotels, movie theaters, movies, nearby (tourist attractions), parking, pharmacies, pubs, restaurants, supermarkets, taxies, theaters, and weather. If you click on the globe icon after this, you can change where you look for POI's. Around me allows you to search by city, zip code, or neighborhood name. In Navigon, our categories are gas station, parking, restaurant, lodging, ATM, bank, shopping, public transports, automotive dealers and service, car rental, tourist / nature, culture, sports and recreation, schools and libraries, government office, health care, post office, harbor, and business facility. Within each of these categories are subcategories. We won't go over all of these for time's sake, but let's look at restaurant. In here we have fast food, pizza, sandwich, cafe, McDonalds, Burger Kin, Baskin-Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Sonic, Subway, Taco Bell, Wendy's, African, american, barbecue/southern, brewpub, british aisles, cajun / caribbean, chinese, continental, filipino, french, german, greek, grill, indian, indonesian / malaysian, international, italian, japanese, korean, latin american, mexican, middle eastern, seafood, south american, southwestern, spanish, steak house, swis, thai, and others. You can search POI's in Navigon by state, city, nearby, or local search. Local search allows you to type the name of the POI if you know it. Around Me also has a nearby search feature, and you can bring it up by hitting the search button in the categories list. The cool thing about Around Me's search feature is that it seems to show you business names even if they wouldn't normally show up in a category's list of POI's. So say you know the name of a restaurant, but it's not showing up on the list. A search for it might reveal that this restaurant is ten miles away, and Around Me's local search doesn't go that far. Regretably, I have not tested Navigon in padestrian mode, but if its responsiveness by car is any indication, I would imagine the app would perform well in this area. Hope this information helps some of you. Feel free to write me off-list with other questions if you don't want to flood the list. Regards, Rose
On 5/1/12, John Diakogeorgiou <[email protected]> wrote: > Are people not using gps drive any more? > > On 4/22/12, Mária Orovcíková <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi guys, >> please is it possible to use Navigon and Ariadne when the keypad and >> screen >> are locked? >> Thanks >> With kind regards >> Maria >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Krister Ekstrom" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:17 PM >> Subject: Re: gps for pedestrians, again, probably >> >> >> Hi, >> It was very helpful, and more or less what i thought. I think though that >> in >> the classic version of MyWay you can use OpenStreetMap to plan your >> routs, >> but this, judging by the experience i had using Voxtrek is very iffy at >> best >> here in Sweden. >> Thanks a lot for the explanation. >> /Krister >> >> 22 apr 2012 kl. 11:38 skrev Anne Robertson: >> >>> Hello Krister, >>> >>> Ariadne tells you where you are, and if you select "Start monitoring", >>> it >>> updates you on your position as you walk. It also tells you as you >>> approach a favourite, but it doesn't tell you how to get to that >>> favourite. >>> >>> MyWay Classic allows you to plan routes, including along paths that are >>> not shown on maps. So, if your route includes crossing a park or going >>> through a wood, MyWay will help you keep to your route, but you do have >>> to >>> >>> plot it yourself in the first place. >>> >>> Navigon gives you turn-by-turn directions on routes shown on maps. It >>> runs >>> >>> in the background, making it possible to have Ariadne running in the >>> foreground. >>> >>> So, if the area you're moving to is properly mapped by Navigon, you >>> won't >>> need MyWay. >>> >>> I hope this is a clear explanation of the differences between these >>> apps. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> On 22 Apr 2012, at 10:59, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> But have i misunderstood anything here? As i understood it, Myway only >>>> saves favorites or pois that you do yourself and then guides you to >>>> them, >>>> >>>> much as Ariadne does or am i incorrect there? I got the feeling they >>>> were >>>> >>>> both quite similar? Aren't you referring to IWay which was a gps >>>> solution >>>> >>>> discussed a little while back that people said was no good? >>>> And if not, what is the point with MyWay when we have Navigon that >>>> works >>>> just as well? >>>> /Krister >>> >>> -- >>> 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/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> 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/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> 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/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
