Hello John and others, Yes, Navigon can be used in Pedestrian mode. I agree with Raul, Navigon is a good app and works reasonably well with Voiceover, but it has a bit of a learning curve and I think most people who post on here that it's useless and is not Voiceover friendly just haven't taken the time to play around with it. Below is a bit of a write-up I sent to somebody else a while ago and maybe you find it useful, I am giving some examples which were relevant for that list member and I haven't changed them because it really doesn't matter which places I use as an example. Also, the descriptions of screens and settings I use are based on the latest version of Navigon. Before you give up on Navigon it really is important to understand the app. As somebody pointed out before, you can input a route by entering in an address or a POI which typically is a restaurant, gas station, store etc. If you want to enter an address you can’t enter the entire address at once, e.g. you can’t just type 1234 Washington Street into the edit field, it is a multi-step process where first you pick the Map (if you have several installed you may have to pick Florida etc.). Once that is done it asks you for the city. You live in Pensacola, so if you start typing “Pensa” Pensacola should show up in a list, the fewer letters you type the more options are on the list, for example, if you live somewhere where you have towns like Clifton, Clydsdale, Clearwater, Clearfield, Clearbrook, if you were to type “cl, all of these would be in the list, if you type “c l e”, only the 3 choices starting with “clear” show in the list and if you type “clearw” only Clearwater would be left. You can, at any time, check the list and double tap on the city you want if it is in the list. Once you do that the next screen comes up and this says “Street in Pensacola text field”, as long as you selected Pensacola as your city. If you keep flicking right you see a list of all streets in Pensacola sorted alphabetically. Double tap the edit field so you can start entering text and enter, in your case, “St” or “Star” and then make sure “Stark Avenue” or “Stark Ave” is listed and double tap to select it.
Especially with streets it is important to pick from the list since you never know if the complete name is “Stark Ave”, “Stark Avenue” etc. In some towns you may have the same street name with a “W” or “E” at the end for “West” and “East”, but if you typed the name spelling out “West” it may not recognize it because it only wants “W”. Once you see your street on the list, double tap it and now you have the option to either enter a house number or cross street/intersection. VoiceOver announces “Text Field is Editing, Character Mode, No/Intersection in Stark Avenue”. Once again this is assuming you selected Stark Avenue and that your rotor setting is set to character, not word. If you flick right, you’ll find a list of intersections listed and if you double tap on one it would navigate to that intersection. Anyhow, enter your house number and press the “Done” button at the very bottom right of the onscreen keyboard. Now the very top left option will read like this: No. Back Button This means if you double tap here it will go back one screen back to where you can enter the number. Pressing back on that screen will go back to where you can enter/select the street name, back again will go to the city etc. If you flick right once you will have the “Start Navigation” button. Flick right once more and it will read you the full address with city, zip code etc. that you entered. Press “Start Navigation”, then flick right on the next screen, here you have your second “Start Navigation”. If you flick right again here (you would have to do this fairly quickly, it will give you one or more distances. These are the possible routes you can select. If you press “Start Navigation”, it will select whatever preference you have chosen, e.g. Shortest, Fastest, Scenic etc. This is somewhere in Settings and I typically have this set to “Shortest”. If you don’t do anything for maybe 10 seconds, it will start navigation automatically based on your preferences. Now start walking and it should start giving you voice announcements on where to turn etc. If you touch the screen at the very bottom just up from the Home Key (where you normally would touch to unlock your phone), it may say a street name and typically this is the name of whichever street you turn on at your first turn. Flick left once here and it will give you a distance and that is the distance to that turn, if you double tap the distance it repeats the last announcement. At the very top left of the screen is “Main Menu”, if you double tap that it will hide the route and display the main screen with “Address”, “POI”, My Destinations and Take Me Home. If you double tap it again and touch the screen somewhere in the middle or at the bottom your route should come back. Once you start navigation you have to either complete the route or stop navigation. To do this find “Options” on the screen, doule tap it and then at the very top of the choices you have “Exit Navigation”. It is important to make sure you have the route profile set to “Pedestrian with Voice Announcement”. This is done by going to “Settings”, “Route” and “Route Profile”. Once you touch “Route Profile” it will announce what it is set to, e.g. car, truck, pedestrian with voice announcement etc. There is also an option that just says “Pedestrian”, not sure what is different about it, I guess it won’t have voice guidance. It is also important that if you want Navigon to say, for example, in 300 feet turn left onto Stark Avenue” to set the speech to “Lynn (announcement of street names)”. There is also a “Default Voice” which is a very nice human voice, but it would, for example, only say “in 300 feet turn left”. I hope this helps some, I was just on Maui with a friend and since she has a horrible sense of direction, can’t really read a map and typically doesn’t find anything in a strange place, I used Navigon all the time to put in either addresses, hotels, restaurants, beaches or other points of interest and it worked flawlessly. I had, of course, set the route profile to Car because if you leave it on Pedestrian and use it in a car it most likely will not track properly. I hope this helps a bit. Good luck, Sieghard -- 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.
