[Electronics-talk] GPS Similar to Original Trekker?

[Danielle Antoine]

I was curious about the trekker breeze because where I live it's kinda
rural and I don't get out and walk many places because I don't know
the streets and what's there. My folks are not into walking nor
describing suroundings and such.

When I moved to baton rouge, where I used to live, Mr. Frye a cab
driver I met used to tell me the streets and which way they ran as we
went by...that is how I really learned my way around the city since at
that time my kids were toddlers and I wasn't doing much walking and
using public transportation with them in tow. However, once i did I
had a very good idea of my surroundings and could direct other drivers
quite well. Many thanks to Fred frye!

Danielle

On 5/8/13, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> APH has a PC-based talking maps application which may do what you
> want.  It or some version thereof may be sold by Sendero too.
>
> Dave
>
> At 03:02 PM 5/8/2013, you wrote:
>>Hi Everyone,
>>I had an origional Trekker with the Dell PDA, and sadly it no longer
>>works properly. I loved using it to learn new places because it
>>would allow you to browse streets one block at a time, by pressing
>>the navigational keys left right up or down. This gave me a really
>>good picture in my mind of all of the intersections along a given
>>street, and where streets were in relation to each other. I know
>>there is a Trekker Breeze now, but that does not allow you to browse
>>virtually like I am describing. I have an iPhone now, but none of
>>the GPS apps I know of allow me to browse streets by block like the
>>Trekker did. With the flat screen it seems you have to drag your
>>finger along the street to navigate it, and it is very difficult to
>>keep my finger on the street using the flat screen. I am looking for
>>a GPS option that will allow me to explore streets from one
>>intersection to the next, by pressing some sort of button, or
>>perhaps making some sort of swipe gesture, to advance along the
>>street. Does anyone know of such a GPS program? It can be an iPhone
>>app or some stand alone GPS system.
>>
>>Thanks for any help you can provide,
>>Sarah
>
>
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