Hi All, Yes, Navigon is one of the GPS apps that can be used on an iPod Touch with an external Bluetooth GPS receiver such as the XGPS150A from Dual Electronics or the Bad Elf GPS. Glenn's summary is correct, and you can check the recent list archives for my post in response to Lovette's question by detailing which external Bluetooth GPS units have been successfully used by blind or visually impaired users this way.
I thought I'd alert list members to a couple of recent posts on the AppleVis site about upcoming GPS apps. Michael May gave a presentation at the NFB 2012 convention in Dallas outlining an app called "The Seeing Eye" that the Sendero group is currently beta testing, and hopes to release later this summer. It's supposed to combine the turn-by-turn direction capabilities of current main stream GPS apps (such as Navigon and TomTom) with additional verbalization features of the Sendero apps. They state that it will be "priced competitively", but I don't know what that will translate into for actual pricing. Secondly, the people who developed the LookTel MoneyReader and LookTel Recognizer apps have another GPS app in beta testing called LookTel Breadcrumbs. For those of you who are familiar with the MyWay Lite or MyWay apps, it sounds as though Breadcrumbs works in a similar fashion to allow you to "drop" breadcrumbs for specific points of interest, but has more features and better integration between breadcrumb-based travel and route-based travel. GPS apps like MyWay Lite and Breadcrumbs are meant to let you navigate in areas where there are no street maps, such as when you are on a hiking trail, in a large park, or walking on an extensive college campus. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
