[Electronics-talk] GPS Similar to Original Trekker?

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Danielle.
What a great cab driver!
The Trekker Breeze is sold by Humanware, humanware.com.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danielle Antoine" <singingmywayin at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] GPS Similar to Original Trekker?


>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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