It is important to remember that when Blind Square gives you the distance to
the next cross street, it is giving the distance from the middle of the street,
not the curb. This is, I believe due to the fact of the GPS systems being
intended for automobiles and not pedestrians.
Marie
From: Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 7:06 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Blind square
James, GPS accuracy varies widely; so you could be 30 feet from a cross street
or 100.
If the streets are on the map, it should announce them, but some smaller
streets, paths, are not on maps, so without actually walking the route, no one
can say if everything will be announced.But, the following information from the
Blind Square help may give you some idea of what to try.
When BlindSquare announces your distance to an intersection, it uses the center
of the intersection as a reference point. This means that the width of the
street also determines how soon you hear the BlindSquare intersection
announcement before you reach the curb. If you live in an area where the
streets are narrow, you may find that BlindSquare announces intersections too
early, whereas in an area where streets are particularly wide, intersections
may be announced too late. If the default medium setting of this option does
not work to your satisfaction, try using the Long setting if streets in your
area are wide or Short if streets are very narrow.
Richard
Always look out for #1, and be careful not to step in #2.
On Sep 16, 2019, at 6:51 PM, Larry Lumpkin <llump...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
Blindsquare doesn’t have intersection analysis yet. It is something I have
lobbying for for years.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 8:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Blind square
Well, nobody should say whether the apps can get you home safely since we do
not know your cane skills.
Can they assist you in getting there; absolutely.
Blind Square can speak the street names that you are coming to/crossing;
while Apple Maps tells you when to turn.
I set blind square to streets only so I'm not hearing a bunch of business
names etc when I really just want to know the streets.
Apple Maps or Google maps can be launched from Blind square to do the
turn-by-turn portion of the directions.
HTH,
Richard
Always look out for #1, and be careful not to step in #2.
On Sep 16, 2019, at 2:50 PM, James English <james13engl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
How useful is blindsquare in an unfamiliar place, especially a very
busy one? If I am in say, the royal mile, and want to walk back to my
house around 1.5 miles away (I have no clue of the directions), could
blindsquare and apple maps get me there safely? With a cane, of
course.
- James
On 9/16/19, 'Karen Delzer' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Could be very interesting; thank you.
Karen
At 04:47 PM 9/15/2019, you wrote:
I also quite like the app Righthear which is free and it gives you a
lot of information about what is around you, you can record your own
points and it even has built-in turn by turn directions. In the
latest update you can tap on a button called "Lense" and it allows
you to open Be My Eyes or Cash Reader. I don't often require a money
reader because in Canada all the bills are marked with braille dots
and I always thought the money reader channel in the Seeing AI app
worked quite well, but this Cash Reader app blows everything out of
the water I have yet tried including the old Money Reader app which
became Nand Money reader. It is, however, not free, you can
subscribe monthly or annually or get a lifetime license for the full
version for $24.99 Canadian, in the US it is $17.99.
However, it supports dozens of currencies from the big ones like US
and Canadian Dollars to Euros, British Pounds, Australian and New
Zealand Dollars to pretty much everything from central and South
America, many European currencies from countries which aren't on the
Euro like some of the Scandinavian countries, many Asian as well as
African currencies. You would need to purchase the full version for
those, I think the free version only supports only the two lowest
denominations, here in Canada that would be the $5 and $10 bills and
they also offer a 2-week free trial.
I decided to simply buy it because I thought it could come in handy
if I go to the Philippines where my wife is from, there is no way to
distinguish their many Philippine Peso bills and it is also one of
the supported currencies. I tried it with a couple of Canadian
Dollar bills and I think by that time it was pretty dark so it was
using the phone's flashlight which you can set to be used
automatically if it's two dark and almost any which way I waved the
bill by the camera it recognized it instantly, front, back, on an
angle... it was actually quite impressive. You can also select if
you want to use the front or back camera, by default it uses the
back camera and for those who are hard of hearing you can even set
vibrations patterns for the different bills. Here is a link for the app:
https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fcash-reader-bill-identifier%2Fid1344802905&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ced598d27e03e4fa3da0c08d73aefdde8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637042674195202727&sdata=RwOUs1VuFkZA1AvROTXJN4kMKfT9AdPIy7SkWsLc2QI%3D&reserved=0
Regards,
Sieghard
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