Hi, But the maps app doesn't give turn by turn directions while traveling. It just gives a list of directions. You need to by an app with spoken turn by turn directions like, Navigon, Tom Tom, or motion GPS drive..
Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 19, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Gigi wrote: > Hi guys > I haven't followed too closely on this thread, because I wasn't sure that I > could make any intelligent comments. However, I would like to say that I > really wish somebody would develop better a GPS for us! Last night, I was > messing with the GPS on the iPhone. You know, the one that comes with it. I > got Siri to put in the address because my husband had it on his iPhone. Of > course, it brought up the map and I chose Gaubert by bus. The problem is as > you know, the app tells you to walk to the bus stop and probably shows a map > of doing that. However, it also tells you to walk to your destination after > you get off the bus stop, giving no details of how to get there, at least I > couldn't figure out any verbally. > Me and my seeing-eye dog have been traveling around for 42 years > successfully. However, the last thing I need is complications on mobility > with dealing with the computer. Therefore I am the kind of person that would > keep a developer in business. I don't want to even want to look at a map! > Regards Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> > wrote: > >> But before the app can guide you back to your destination, or for that >> matter anywhere else, you actually have to draw a map yourself of the way >> you want to go, as far as i understand the loadstone concept, and i could be >> totally wrong here, but i want to have maps drawn for me and then follow >> them, i don't want to go fumbling around in foreign teritories and then try >> drawing up some kind of map especially not if you have to provide lat and >> long coordinates yourself. As i said earlier call me lazy but and this is >> why i don't like opensource at all, i want a program that's ready and that >> works, i don't want to make the program myself, because i am an idiot when >> it comes to programming in any shape or form. I just want the thing to work. >> I'll gladly leave programming, map drawing and other such stuff to the >> experts, the knowledgeable ones. >> /Krister >> >> 18 jan 2012 kl. 22:06 skrev Emrah: >> >>> This is definitely not an app where you can input an address and expect to >>> be guided to it. I would love to find an app that would work well with >>> VoiceOver and provide accurate pedestrian navigation instructions. >>> Last time I used Navigon in pedestrian mode, I felt like an idiot when it >>> said "At the roundabout, take the second exit." >>> >>> This app is great to find directions in large open spaces. If you have a >>> guide dog and like having nice refreshing walks together, this app opens >>> new horizons to you and your friend. You can just walk freely in any open >>> area and ask the app to guide you back to your point of origin. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>> >>>> But as i understand it, you have to put in your own points and stuff >>>> yourself, this is why i never used loadstone, because if you hadn't made >>>> points yourself or if there weren't readymade maps, made by users it was >>>> as good as useless. Call me lazy if you will, but i'd much rather prefer >>>> walking a readymade rout to learn it than first have to build the route >>>> then learn it. >>>> /Krister >>>> >>>> 18 jan 2012 kl. 18:33 skrev Emrah: >>>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
