Hi Fred,
I have not yet purchased the Seeing Eye subscription, but I trust Sendero to deliver the most complete solution for a blind GPS user even if they may experience a few growing pains like the recent server outage etc. There are probably also features we all would like to have and which may take a while to be added. However, besides the Seeing Eye app and a less expensive one-time purchase app, BlindSquare is in my opinion the best app and superior to Ariadne and Sendero's LookAround. I only bought BlindSquare maybe a couple of months ago, but I find the way it announces cross streets the best and you can very easily set user defined points which are announced as you approach them. I definitely think you have to set the distance fairly short as far as the app announcing POI's otherwise it constantly starts talking and telling you all the stuff it finds, for me I find 60 metres which is the second shortest setting works well, I guess if you have it set to feet that would be just under 200 feet, there is only one lesser distance which is 26 metres or approx. 85 feet. Any time you create a user defined point you can tell the app to announce it when you come within a certain distance and that distance you can actually enter manually, so for example if you set a bus stop bench as a point you could tell it to announce it at a distance of 20 feet. In many cases I know I am approaching the bus stop and I only want the announcement which includes the direction when I am very close. Keep in mind that for the directions to work, e.g. Bus Stop 20 feet at 11 o'clock" you have to point the phone straight ahead into the direction you are walking. I have a case with a belt clip and I can swivel that belt clip. If the phone is on your belt and points straight up and down the compass directions will not work, you have to either hold the phone and point it straight ahead or you have to be able to turn the belt clip so the phone is basically in landscape mode on your hip with the top of the phone where the headphone jack is pointing forward. Then you still have to make sure you position the belt clip so it's straight on the outermost point of your hip, if you have it forward or back to far towards your belly or back it will point off at a slight angle, i.e. instead of pointing towards 12 o'clock straight ahead it may point to 11 o'clock or 1 o'clock and this will mean the announcements will not be as good as they can be. I think having such a belt clip with a swivel is the way to get the most out of BlindSquare since I certainly don't want to hold my phone all the time. Regards, Sieghard . I think for normal 4 or 6 weeks ago From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Fred Olver Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 5:11 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blind Square VS. My way classic? Thank you, Sieghard , I had attempted to find it in the app store with no luck. This is most helpful. It sounds though for navigating an area that Blind Square would be the app to have, especially if it points out landmarks or items of interest along the way. Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:siegh...@live.ca> To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:43 AM Subject: RE: Blind Square VS. My way classic? Hi Fred, MyWay Light and MyWay Classic are more designed to record user routes and then to be used to follow these routes from point to point. The app does not use map data like BlindSquare and will not tell you street names, cross streets etc. MyWay is written without a space, but if you search for "My Way Classic" and write it in 3 words, it will find the app as the only search result, but you have to double tap on "Search" at the bottom right of the keyboard after you finish typing. There will be no result in the list underneath the search field and I think often people don't find apps because they don't do that final step, tap enter and then check the results in the picker box. Anyhow, here is the main portion of the description and the link in the US app store: GPS orientation aid which provides distance and directional information to a selected point of interest. Such a point can be an address from your address book or a point of a self-defined route. The non-free version of MyWay also allows file exchange via the iTunes filesharing option. There, you can also import files containing nodes in Open Street Map format giving access to hundreds of POI in the proximity such as bus stops or restaurants. Thanks to VoiceOver, visually impaired and blind people have unlimited access to this app. We recommend to turn on speaking of VoiceOver hints. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myway-classic/id494282724?mt=8 Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Fred Olver Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 4:20 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Blind Square VS. My way classic? Has anyone compared these two applications for proximity purposes? If so, how did they compare? Was one better than the other? Can they both or either one be used for walking? I attempted to find My Way classic in the American app store and no luck, someone have the correct spelling? Any information would be most useful as I am contemplating purchasing one of these two. Thank you very much. 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