Hello Garth
How do you get the app to give your street name and 
intersection. I get info about pois around me but when I 
shake the iPhone it just says "your location" but nothing 
else.
Regards
Fanus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Harris" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: BlindSquare


Ok, happier to hear this, and might yet get it to go for a 
whirl.

Thanks, RobH.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garth Humphreys" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: BlindSquare


Okay, I finally got home to some wifi and have been able to 
download the
app. It looks really interesting and I like the interface. 
The app will
automatically read out details from POI's around you. The 
data is as stated
taken straight from foursquare. This is not a 'yellow pages' 
type model for
POI data as someone guessed at. Also the app is available 
outside the US,
i'm in Australia and the app description states some of the 
other
non-english languages for which there are localisation's.

I haven't been able to go for a walk to see how it responds 
but sitting here
at home I can see the direction and distance to a number of 
things around
me. I got the app to give me my current location and I got 
the street name
and distance and direction to the nearest corner.

On the negative side, the whole interface seems to frees up 
and or go slow
when the GPS signal is poor. The app does self voice the 
fact that the GPS
is poor as well though.

BTW, You can turn off self voicing if you like.

Anyway i have only had a brief look so far but definitely 
don't regret
spending $12 on it. Not that I want to encourage more 
expensive apps but
lets face it, I spend that much on a whim for a few cups of 
coffee.

Garth .

n 23/05/2012, at 7:21 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:

> And it's probably only available in the u.s and won't ever 
> become
> worldwide.
> /Krister, the eternal optimist. :-)lol
>
> 22 maj 2012 kl. 22:25 skrev Austin Seraphin:
>
>> A hot new GPS app just entered the app store. BlindSquare 
>> uses
>> FourSquare's location database to provide points of 
>> interest. You can
>> also add your own private points. It will also tell your 
>> location and
>> nearest cross street, everything you need. I really like 
>> it! I can't find
>> an iTunes link yet, but you can find it by searching on 
>> your iDevice in
>> the app store. It doesn't have any documentation yet, but 
>> hopefully you
>> can figure out, and you can ask if you have any 
>> questions. Enjoy!
>>
>> - Austin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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