Of course loadstone along with Google maps is an alternative.
Now, it depends on what is exactly meant by good enough alternatives.
At least, LS and GM are free, so in financial terms, they are good enough for
navigation.
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-----Original Message-----
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Subramani L
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:10 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] wayfinder access
Are there any alternatives... I mean good enough alternatives?
Subramani
-----Original Message-----
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vetrivel
Adhimoolam
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:24 PM
To: jean parker; accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] wayfinder access
The information that I received from the Access mailing list assures the
existence of WF till April 2011 and nothing can be sure after that. It
seems
that some companies like Talksnav in UK tried to negotiate with
Vadaphone
and they did not succeed. So the present status is that WF is certainly
going down and the question is when. Unless some other institution
manages
to buy the software from Vodephoen, the program is not going to survive
and
people are already beginning to explore alternatives.
Vetri.
----- Original Message -----
From: "jean parker" <radiofore...@gmail.com>
To: "Pranav Lal" <pranav....@gmail.com>;
<accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] wayfinder access
> So from these comments there is no possibility of this loadstone
solution
> being a viable substitute for Wayfinder. It isn't. So besides
signing
> petitions and so forth, what is being done to attempt preservation of
the
> service in India and elsewhere? According to the man who wrote last
week,
> fifty-six of the petition signers are from India. Are they all on
this
> list? Have any been contacted personally about any plans? Are there
any
> plans? Dipendra, could you weigh in on this please?
>
> Jean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav....@gmail.com>
> To: "'jean parker'" <radiofore...@gmail.com>;
> <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 5:51 AM
> Subject: RE: [AI] wayfinder access
>
>
>> Hi Jean,
>> My answers are inline and are prefixed by my initials.
>>
>>
>> <snip I find this whole thing most confusing. Are you saying that in
>> order
>> to go
>> anywhere for the first time you have to look it up on the internet?
>> PL] Yes. You need to access the google maps route generator and enter
>> your
>> source and destination and generate the check points file.
>> <snip Suppose you are out somewhere and you spontaneously decide you
>> want
>> to go somewhere
>> else you haven't been before. Is there a way to get a route somehow?
>> PL] Yes. You can do the whole route downloading on the phone but it
is
>> not
>> easy to do.
>> <snip If it incorporates Google Maps, Nokia Maps or whatever, does
it
>> also
>> read other
>> information found on these maps?
>> PL] Loadstone does not incorporate google or nokia maps. It just uses
>> these
>> maps to generate output it can use to navigate.
>>
>> <snip If a person is standing in a place and
>> wants to know what's around is it possible to get that information?
>> PL] In loadstone yes but it depends on the points you have loaded for
>> that
>> location.
>>
>> <snip Is this potentially better than Wayfinder Access because
presumably
>> nokia/google
>> maps are more frequently updated?
>> PL] Hard to say. Perhaps yes but things like rerouting are not
available
>> using this approach.
>>
>> Pranav
>>
>
>
>
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