Hi Brett, Actually, I set this up a couple of versions earlier. I Wennona my places, searched for the address I wished and then save it as a favorite. So now every time I travel on the bus to my office, I pick the address out of the favorites list that I created. It's a great feature.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > You are correct. However, just a note this has only just came in in the > latest version. > > Sent from Brett's iPhone > > On 21/01/2013, at 6:30 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace >> is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did >> this by specifying a street address. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by >>> exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address >>> ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the >>> business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential >>> locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to >>>> mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map >>>> data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience >>>> analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while >>>> walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change >>>> what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well >>>> as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. >>>> Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver >>>> repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. >>>> Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the >>>> POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you >>>> have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a >>>> nice bonus. >>>> >>>> No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an >>>> address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app >>>> such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so >>>> you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech >>>> rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device >>>> is locked or while you're in another navigation app. >>>> >>>> Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief >>>> review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never >>>> thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel >>>> confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness >>>> specific GPS device will be there for me. >>>> >>>> Grant >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
