Hi Wayne, Blindsquare is definitely a popular and good app. However, if somebody just wants street announcements from time to time, you can now easily do this with Apple Maps. All I do is open maps, at the very top right is a "Settings" button and right underneath it is the button called "Tracking". By default that is set to off, if you double tap it once it changes to "On" and if you double tap it a second time right afterwards it changes to "On with Headings". At that point if you start walking (or driving for that matter) Voiceover will announce upcoming cross streets and it will say, for example, "Main Street, north and south" which means the cross street is Main Street and it runs North and South. It occasionally will also tell you the street you are on, so it may say "On 3rd Avenue" and then it will again tell you the upcoming cross street. If I simply want to know where I am (maybe I feel I'm not where I think I am because maybe I made a wrong turn) I just ask SIRI "What is my current location" and it will give me street name and address or address range. Maps doesn't even have to be open for that, it's like asking SIRI what the time is.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Blindsquare and Google Maps Chip, You can in fact have BlindSquare announce the streets as you come upon them, either by walking or riding in a vehicle. When you open the app your focus is placed on the Search button. If you then swipe/flick right to the Filter Announcements button and activate this, you can use a picker and set what you want announced. I generally leave it on streets and my places, which are like favorites, this way I get both automatically. There are other choices though, like streets only, my places only, etc. BlindSquare will detect whether you are walking or riding in a car, train or bus, and adjust accordingly. I'm sorry you did not have a good experience with the BlindSquare support team. Perhaps you can get your money back. If anyone else is thinking of the purchase, go for it! Before I bought BlindSquare, whenever I would ask for good GPS apps for the blind or in general, it seems like BlindSquare was always one of the first ones mentioned. That says something about the app's quality and reliability to me. Wayne On 7/21/16, Eleanor burke <[email protected]> wrote: > have a look at the link I provided below and go to the various > podcasts and listen to them.http://blindsquare.com/help/ > >> On 21 Jul 2016, at 22:55, Dave Mitchel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Eleanore, how do I accomplish this? I am using whatever it comes up >> with, which does appear to be good in my remote area. just wondering >> in case I need to double check anything. >> Dave >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Eleanor burke >> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 2:47 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Blindsquare and Google Maps >> >> you can use blind Square in association with Google maps or in >> association with Apple maps. >> >>> On 21 Jul 2016, at 22:45, Chip Orange <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I recently purchased Blind Square and am very disappointed. It uses >>> "open source" map data from Open Street Maps, and is quite >>> inaccurate in my area. When I wrote to them asking for some way to >>> have a feature where we could offer map data corrections, or to ask >>> if they could use Google Map data, they told me they only updated >>> their map data once a year, so giving us a feature to offer map data >>> corrections would still leave us with map problems for a long time, so >>> wasn't worth it. >>> They were unapologetic and unconcerned about the quality of the map >>> data as far as I could tell. >>> >>> Blind Square, as far as this newbie can tell, does not offer you >>> directions either; it relies on your use of Apple maps or Google maps. >>> >>> So I also have to wonder what exactly I am getting besides street >>> names which are wrong or missing, and no way to correct them, and >>> map updates only once a year??? Really??? I had just assumed they >>> would always be using the most up to date data just like Google >>> maps, so this was a huge disappointment to me. >>> >>> Chip >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND >>> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 4:47 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Blindsquare and Google Maps >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have mostly been using Google Maps to get walking directions. >>> >>> Can anyone tell me what advantages I would gain if I purchase >>> Blindsquare to use in conjunction with Google Maps as opposed to >>> using Google Maps by itself? I know Blindsquare has been discussed >>> quite a lot on the list, but I am having trouble figuring out what I >>> would gain by using it along with Google Maps or Apple Maps. 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