[Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's

[Baracco, Andrew W]

If you want to hear intersections called out as you go, something like
Blind Square, or the Seeing Eye GPS app would serve you well. The
advantage of the latter is that you can also use it for route travel.
You can also do this with the combo of Blind Square and Google maps, and
the latter is a lot cheaper because you only pay for Blind Square once,
and Google Maps is free.  Also, I would suspect that Google Maps will be
better at keeping up to date if you have a lot of new construction going
on.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 10:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's

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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Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 12:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's

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'" 
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Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 8:33 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Comparing GPS's


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> I know some of you have had a chance to use the various iPhone apps
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