[NAGDU] Using an accessible GPS while working your guide dog
Jody Ianuzzi
thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 15:02:32 UTC 2016
Hello Carmella
I have Navigon and several other GPS apps on my iPhone but I find I just use Siri and Google maps to get directions. Google maps can be sent to pedestrian mode
JODY 🐺
thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)
> On Apr 13, 2016, at 8:10 PM, Carmella Broome via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Carmella Broome and 3 year old yellow lab Brooklyn
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