I've had BlindSquare for the last week and have loved it. BlindSquare is not a turn-by-turn navigation app, but you can use it with Apple/Google Maps to get directions. I love how it senses whether I am traveling by bus, car or on foot and adjusts the announcements of streets and places accordingly. It is a little expensive for an app, but is well worth the cost if you want to know what streets and Points of Interest are around. If you have FourSquare/Swarm, Uber or Lyft on your phone you can use BlindSquare in conjunction with them as well.
Wayne On 1/31/16, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Well said, Richard, I agree that the Seeing Eye app is very good especially > now that you can add your own custom points of interest. It provides the > most information and as far as I know is still the only app which gives you > intersection details like "4-way" or "3-way" along with the directions the > streets run. However, I think Apple Maps has evolved nicely as well and if > you do want a route and use Apple Maps and turn on "Tracking with Headings" > it also automatically reads out cross-streets and it works quite well. One > thing I like although this isn't strictly Apple Maps and you can use this > with any other GPS app running is the fact that if I want to know where I am > right now I can just press the SIRI button on my headset and ask SIRI "What > is my current location" and it will answer with the address where you are at > either an exact address or a range of house numbers, but it still is very > useful. > If somebody has the funds then I think having Blindsquare and the Seeing-Eye > app is ideal and of course Apple Maps is already there on the phone and one > can download Google Maps as it is a free app. > You can also always start with Apple Maps to see h ow well it meets your > needs and also download Google Maps to compare and then think of buying apps > like Blindsquare and the Seeing-Eye app. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Richard Turner > Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 5:44 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Gps > > > The best GPS app is the one that works best for you in your situation and > location. > It is truly a matter of preference, and travel style, etc. > Some would say that Sendero's Seeing Eye GPS is the best, and it is pretty > amazing, but it also costs the most. > You can subscribe for roughly $70 per year, or $130 for three years, or buy > it once under the name Seeing Eye GPS XT, for $300. > Then, there are the free Google Maps or MapQuest, or the built-in Apple > Maps. > Those are all turn-by-turn GPS apps. > If you mainly want something to identify streets and points of interest for > orientation, Blind Square is very good. Or Ariadne GPS, and quite a few > more. > > Perhaps if you said a little more what kind of travel help you want, it > would be easier to narrow down some suggestions. > Richard > > >> On Jan 30, 2016, at 5:29 PM, Michael Maslo <michaelmasl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi group, I was wondering if anyone could tell me the best GPS app for the >> iPhone? 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