Grant, any chance of you're putting together a podcast with this app so we
can hear it in action?
Fred Olver
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From: "Kristeen Hughes" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Blindsquare: my favourite iOS navigation app thus far
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
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