I would like to thank you very much for your post. I have been wondering about it, but thought, like you did, it wouldn't be useful to me. I'm very excited about it now. I have long struggled with what is best to use and all that you mention is so true of other apps.
Thanks again. Kristeen On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:23 AM, 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.
