[Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's

[Jim Barbour]

If you just want to know where you are, i.e. what street you're on,
then you can simply ask siri "where am I?"

She doesn't do well with intersections, so she'll say "you're at 4999
elm street" rather than the more useful "you're at elm at forest streets"

iMove is another good app for continuously telling you what address
you're likely near and what street.  I like it a lot.

Blindsquare will give you street names and interesections, along with
land marks, points of interest, and the ability to do searching.
However, it's a busier app.  It's also a large app because it uses its
own text to speech engine.  It's also not a free app.  To be clear, I
love it adn highly recommend it, but you should probably want it for
more than just knowing what street you're own.

Hope this helps,

Jim

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Darla Rogers wrote:
> Thanks, Andy; which ones give street names/  The streets do a lot of really
> weir changing and taking off one direction and cutting off, etc.
> 	Sadly, I think they are going to rebuild some of our area; don't
> know, for sure if it will make any street changes or not, but since I'm
> venturing forth afoot a lot more now, street names would be helpful.
> Darla
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Baracco, Andrew W
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 12:08 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's
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> Darla,
> 
> It really depends on what you want to do.  If you want something for route
> travel, I. e. you have a driver who will take you from point a to point B,
> Navigon works well, but Google Maps is free.  However, if you just want to
> know where you are, and you are riding paratransit and cannot select the
> route yourself, you may prefer something like Blind Square, or even the
> Sendero Seeing Eye app. You can use the latter for both route travel and for
> simple orientation. You can also use the combo of Blind Square and Google
> Maps to get both turn by turn directions and have intersections and POIs
> called out as you go.  Personally, I like using the iPhone for convenience,
> but I still think that I get better performance from my old Trekker Maestro
> with the iblue 886 Bluetooth GPS receiver. The only problem is that you
> can't get new maps for it, so its POI info will become useless over time,
> but being that my area is pretty much built over, there won't be that many
> new streets being laid out, so the street and highway info will be good for
> a long time.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Beverly
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 1:14 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's
> 
> Darla, I don't know if your question has been answered or not, but I prefer
> Navigon. It is a little pricy, but to me, it is the best. You don't pay when
> the maps are updated. I haven't used it while walking, but when I went to
> Cali last winter we used it and it was fantastic. The cost is around $50,
> but to me, well worth it.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darla Rogers" <djrogers0628 at gmail.com>
> To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'" 
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 8:33 PM
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's
> 
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> > Hi everyone,
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> >                I hope this isn't off-topic for this list; if so,
> please
> > accept my humble apologies in advance.
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> > I know some of you have had a chance to use the various iPhone apps
> and
> > self-contained units; I'd be curious to know your opinions on the best
> one
> > or ones and why?
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> > Darla Making peace with my iPhone
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> > Darla J. Rogers
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> > djrogers0628 at gmail.com
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