On Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:38:12 PM UTC-7, Sieghard wrote: > > 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 > > >
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