Sorry, I forgot a really important offering: the Near-by Explorer from APH. It uses both a commercial high quality map along with Google places, but it doesn’t charge a yearly subscription like Sendero. It’s just a single sale of $79.
I don’t own it, but it looks to me to be exactly what you would want as a good compromise between high quality data and cost. APH.org runs a mailing list for Near-by Explorer if you want to ask questions of current owners. Hth, Chip From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 3:13 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Vehicle locator GPS app Hi Todd, Blind Square only uses street map data from a free data source called “Open Street Map”, and it’s quite inaccurate. In my location, it has street names wrong, and locations of intersections off by hundreds of yards (or meters). Sendero uses a commercial map supplier, and it’s data is quite accurate, but of course much more expensive. I’ve written to the author of Blind Square to ask if he could add a feature to allow users to report mapping errors, report corrections to street names and locations, etc., and he said no, it’s not ever going to be in his plans. He only downloads new maps once a year to begin with, so he doesn’t think offering corrections would even be helpful to such infrequent updates. There is a third mapping choice called Arriadne GPS, which is even less expensive than Blind Square, but which uses Google Mapping data which I believe is constantly updated and is more accurate for street map locations (but may not be as accurate for business locations). Hth, Chip From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Patkus Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 1:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Vehicle locator GPS app All: I am aware of the device used to track all routes that records all the routes one goes then later view the recorded data from the travel. Maps app is OK but need a more of an app that will tell me where I am while the car is moving on the road. Know anything like this? Thank y’all. Todd -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
