[Electronics-Talk] Apps that deliver alerts and vibrations when you get to where you want to be.

Wed Jun 7 22:28:11 UTC 2017

Jenny,
I am quite uncomfortable with using the word exactly because GPS is not
exact. Also, I imagine there are several on this list who use Google Maps or
Apple Maps with walking directions and who feel like those work for them. I
do not think either of those has a feature that would let me mark the door I
mentioned with the steps here. I think there are some other features they do
not have for me also but the flipside is that they are free; I am sure some
on this list think they work just fine and great for the cost.
Jim 

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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Apps that deliver alerts and vibrations when
you get to where you want to be.

OK, I missed one part right didn't understand it. Like Google maps or
whatever, you can put in an address and it will verbally give you
directions. So the other apps will do the same thing and then tell you
exactly where doors are in stock. That's really cool if it does that.
Because I don't know necessarily how to get to a route. I just like the
ability to say like go left on such and such street or you have reached the
street turn left. Do you like I love apps that help as much as possible.

Jenny

> On Jun 7, 2017, at 5:04 PM, Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Jenny,
> You can create roots and the app will give you turn by turn directions.
> There may be situations when one wants to find a gazebo in a park and 
> there are not trails but instead is just a vast open space; in a 
> situation like that, one may prefer to think of a clock face for the 
> directions or one app calls this "getting warmer."  The root suggested 
> may not be the one you would prefer, which means that the user needs 
> some travel skills and to use the app as an additional tool. There may 
> be sidewalk construction on the suggested root; there may be no 
> sidewalks at all so the traveler needs to use trailing techniques 
> along roads. In the wide open spaces example, there may be drop offs 
> or who knows what. In my earlier post, I said the door might not be 
> where the app directs a person. I can give a good example so you know 
> how that would work. My office is in the building that is the 
> headquarters for Maryland's rehabilitation agency. This is a large, 
> three-story building with several doors. I have its address  marked as 
> a favorite and can root to it easily. The address is a main door and 
> is where paratransit drops people off or where a cab would drop one 
> off. The building is almost a block long. My office is toward the far 
> west of the building and the main door is probably 50 yards east of my 
> office. Walking east on the street where this building is located, 
> there is a set of steps that goes up to a door on the west end of the 
> building closest to my office. I will not be told that I have reached my
destination that is marked as a favorite at those steps because they are
several yards west of the official address.
> They lead to a door though that is closest to my office. I know they 
> are there as does my dog guide, so I use them. If I wanted to be sure 
> to get them located by the app, I could mark them. That would improve 
> the GPS ability to inform me of them, but there is the imperfect 
> accuracy issue of earlier so it might not be exact.
> Jim McCarthy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jenny Keller via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 5:02 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> Cc: Jenny Keller
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Apps that deliver alerts and 
> vibrations when you get to where you want to be.
> 
> Hi Jim, question, hey, how's dark. Also, wanted to know about these apps.
> Does it give you directions and then let you know where you're 
> supposed to be like by the doors. Or, do they just tell you where you 
> are at but let you find it yourself. I don't know about these apps.
> 
> 
> Jenny
> 
>> On Jun 7, 2017, at 3:27 PM, Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> All of the blindness specific apps, Blind Square as mentioned, Seeing 
>> Eye GPS, and Nearby Explorer alert for location arrival. For those 
>> not familiar with GPS, it should be noted that this alert may be 
>> close but not exact to the desired location because of the in perfect 
>> accuracy of GPS. All the 3 apps I mentioned have a cost and for phone 
>> based apps, it is somewhat high, I think at least $30. The other item 
>> I think relevant here is that the address in the maps is not always 
>> equivalent to the door of the place one seeks; some shopping centers 
>> or  apartment complexes may only have one address for several 
>> buildings, stores, or doors; also, the actual point of entry may not 
>> be where the desired address is located on the map. Apps allow one to
> modify this for commonly used places though.
>> Jim McCarthy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Lori Motis via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 11:50 AM
>> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
>> Cc: Lori Motis
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Apps that deliver alerts and 
>> vibrations when you get to where you want to be.
>> 
>> I have that feature on Blind Square. I have it set to alert me when I 
>> arrive at the destination that I am tracking. I am not sure of its 
>> current price, since I bought it several years ago. They have added a 
>> lot of features, and I use it whenever I am out walking and looking 
>> for a particular place. Apple vis gives a lot of info on it and other 
>> similar apps on their website which is applevis.com I think since I 
>> am writing this from memory, and mine is getting old, LOL.
>> Lori AKA Food Lady
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2017, at 6:39 AM, Philip Blackmer via Electronics-Talk
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am looking for a GPS app that can play some kind of alert sound or
>> vibrate my phone when I get to a selected location.   Does anybody know
of
>> an app that has that feature?
>>> 
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