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

Thu Jun 8 16:48:49 UTC 2017

Nobody should depend on that as a tool without other abilities to figure out where you really are supposed to be. It's kind of like using a mini God without a cane. You have to use the cane as your primary tool and the mini guide as your secondary. It's a health, but the meaning I won't tell you if there's a 3 foot drop off in front of you. Then you get hurt, and the mini guy most likely will never be operable again.

Jenny

> On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have had GPS tell me the best route to my destination is to walk along a
> highway, which in New Jersey is very likely to get me killed.  Further, GPS
> did not identify the road as a highway; I just happened to know it was.  So
> be very careful about the route GPS tells you!
> Further, it only gets me close to my destination, but still can be at least
> 20 yards away.  In a dense area like the one where I live, 20 yards can
> include a lot.
> I use GPS, and it's handy, but like Jim says, it's just an additional tool
> to add to my good travel skills.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 6:05 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
> Cc: Jim McCarthy
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Apps that deliver alerts and vibrations when
> you get to where you want to be.
> 
> 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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