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

Thu Jun 8 15:32:03 UTC 2017

Right, exactly is definitely not the word for it.

I use apples app for the maps for directions, and I use Google Maps. It depends. Yeah I cut for me I have to have the directions in general. However, I do think that it's a good thing to find doors. That is important also. I might think about buying one of the apps and when I think I'm where I'm at then flip back over to the door thing

Have a great one

Jenny

> On Jun 7, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 
> 
> -----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 6:25 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.
> 
> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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