Hi Pawel! 

 

While walking you can set your point were you want. A route can contain a lot 
of points, named P1, P2, P3 and so on by the app. Afterwards you can put in a 
new point between two points. I If you want to, you can edit the point names. 

Normally you walk from 1 to 2 to 3, but you can also reverse the rout. From 
where ever you are, you can activate a single point, and get info about 
distance and direction to that point. You can enter the route at point 3 or 10 
or what ever, if you want. 

 

Of cause, MyWay Classic can do a lot more than that. MyWay Lite is for free if 
you can stand the interuptions al the time. But I guess it’s enough for you to 
find out the structure of the app. B.T.w. the app is made by the Swiss 
federation of the Blind. .  

 

Regards 

Lars 

 

 

Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Pawel 
Masarczyk
Skickat: den 11 oktober 2015 21:05
Till: [email protected]
Ämne: Re: Loadstone GPS: a campaign to get an accessible GPS app started on iOS

 

Hello Sieghart and Lars,

 

Unfortunately I can't answer your questions as I'm not in direct touch with the 
developers and only saw the tweet.

 

Does My Way allow for creating routes from point A to B through C? I think that 
was one of the features I heard was missing from most GPS apps available.

 

kind regards

 

Paweł

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:[email protected]>  

To: [email protected] 

Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 4:52 PM

Subject: RE: Loadstone GPS: a campaign to get an accessible GPS app started on 
iOS

 

I thought Loadstone also had maps and gave turn-by-turn directions.

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Lars Billgren
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 3:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: SV: Loadstone GPS: a campaign to get an accessible GPS app started on 
iOS

 

Hello! 

 

You might also test MyWay Classic. I’m using it when I have to pass through a 
park or any place where there are no roads. . Just walk the route with a friend 
and shake the phone where you want your points. Save the route.  You can’t go 
wrong next time you are folling the raout. MyWay classic will give you info 
about direction  and distance to next point and it will vibrate when you point 
your phone in the right direction. 

 

I think it’s close to what Loadstone was. 

 

Regards 

Lars Billgren Sweden 

 

 

Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Sieghard 
Weitzel
Skickat: den 11 oktober 2015 09:00
Till: [email protected]
Ämne: RE: Loadstone GPS: a campaign to get an accessible GPS app started on iOS

 

Hi Paul,

 

Do you have any details about this? I followed your link to the GoFundMe 
website, but apart from the fact that they are looking to raise $2,000 and have 
raised $65 in the last 13 days there is no other information. I would have 
questions like this:

 

Is there an ending date by which the $2,000 have to be raised

If so and they are not reaching the $2,000 what happens to the donations that 
were made

If they do reach the $2,000, when do they expect to have this app ready?

How much do they think the app would cost and would it be a one-time purchase 
or would they require a subscription like Seeing-Eye GPS to keep it going?

 

I guess they are joining the iPhone bandwagon pretty late and it would be 
interesting to know how they think they can differentiate themselves from the 
Seeing-Eye GPS app which now has become much more complete since one can now 
have user POI’s. Then there is of course Blindsquare which does a very nice job 
for telling you where you are and really only lacks more detailed intersection 
information (probably something the will be added at some point) and 
turn-by-turn directions which to many users aren’t as important as getting 
feedback as to where one is one more familiar routes. Lastly of course there 
are apps like Apple Maps and Google Maps which are becoming more and more user 
friendly for visually impaired users as time goes by and which in connection 
with an app like Blindsquare offer a pretty good solution. One big point in 
favour of them of course is that we all know support for them will not go away 
or that the product becomes less useful because the developer runs out of money 
and can’t provide map or app updates.

 

 

Regards,

Sieghard

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Pawel Masarczyk
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2015 1:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Loadstone GPS: a campaign to get an accessible GPS app started on iOS

 

Hello,

 

Just today I came across a tweet courtesy of Cool Blind Tech sharing it, where 
the creators of Loadstone GPS, a well-known Symbian navigation solution, are 
asking to support their Gofundme campaign to get the money needed to get the 
equipment and all other costs covered for the development of its iOS version. 
The fact it was the only place I heard it so far makes me wonder a little as I 
know this was an extremely popular application among Symbian users back when 
everybody had a Nokia.

 

Anyway, here is the link to the campaign's page with all explanations inside.

 

https://www.gofundme.com/loadstone-gps

 

You may consider backing this.

 

kind regards

 

Paweł

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