[NAGDU] Using an accessible GPS while working your guide dog

[Carmella Broome]

Hi everyone, I know aspects of this topic have been talked about on this list before, but I can't find anything recent and I have several questions. I  am interested in accessible GPS I Phone apps and incorporating their use into  my travels with my guide dog. I've heard about  Blind Square and  The Seeing Eye GPS app.   Are there others any of you use and like? Suggestions on preference and why would be much appreciated. Also, experiences using a GPS app while  out walking with/traveling with  your dog  would be great, as well.  I can't find many articles talking about people's first person experiences with such apps and that's what I'm interested in. I want using the apps to enhance my travels with my dog and to help  if I become disoriented on a route or so I can explore  more confidently.  I don't want using such an app to distract me from info my dog is  giving me or from my focus on her  and our work together.  Are any of the guide dog schools   incorporating  GPS app use into training or   giving suggestions to  graduates about using one while working a guide dog? Any thoughts  or experiences  are welcomed and appreciated as I believe very strongly in that knowledge is power idea.  I live in the US and  do not have useable vision. Thanks in advance.      

Carmella Broome and 3 year old yellow lab Brooklyn