Ray: Google Maps provides spoken turn-by-turn also when you are walking. Here is podcast that gives you a good view about experience you get when you use Google Maps together with BlindSquare: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1555578-blindsquare-walking-demo-using-google-maps
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok Jean, how in the world do you get Google Maps to even work Solo? I've > tried using it without Blindsquare, which I can't afford right now, and > have found it not only to be pretty much unusable with voiceover, but can't > find half the cities in Florida that I know obviously exist, Jacksonville > and St. Augustine being 2 of them. > So after about 2 or 3 tries with it, I just uninstalled it, and tried > again with Apple maps, and went back to altering between that and mapquest, > sense I have likes and dislikes about both of them. > On Aug 21, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Cheree Heppe wrote: > > > Cheree Heppe here: > > Experiences like these are exactly the justification for universal > accessibility. > > More power to you and all of us! > > > > Regards, > > Cheree Heppe > > > > > > Sent from my IPhone 4S > > > > On 21/08/2013, at 14:34, jean parker <radiofore...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear all: > > After listening to Mike Orego's podcast on using google maps I decided > to give it a try. As it turned out I am very glad I did. > > Last Saturday evening, middle of the night really, I was returning to > Pasadena from Urvine California where I had been attending a conference > with some friends. None of us were familiar with the Los Angeles freeway > system, possibly the largest, most complex freeway system in the world, and > we became hopelessly lost. So upon request from the driver of the car I > got out my new I-Phone, opened up google maps, found our location and > successfully navigated us all back to Pasadena where we belonged. > > > > I never thought in a million years I would ever be called upon to > navigate the L A freeways but I have done it and plan to do it some more. > > Just thought I would share, > > Jean > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
