Hi Wayne, Well, I find you can get just as good menu info (including from Four Square) from the free app "All Access".
Chip -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 5:45 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Blind Square and Four Square The one big advantage with Blind Square and FourSquare is that you can access menus from various restaurants and fast food places through BlindSquare. That menu data is pulled directly from FourSquare from what I understand. It can vary in quality, where with the Subway menu I get a listing of all of their sandwiches, but with other restaurants, the menus are very comprehensive. And some menus I've pulled up in BlindSquare just list a few things. However, when I go to other locations of the same restaurant I can get more of an actual menu. Though you can "check in" to places with BlindSquare, that functionality has been split off from the FourSquare app. FourSquare is more about keeping up with where your friends/follwers are, whereas Swarm is for checking in, in case anyone cares. Anyway, I've had BlindSquare since January and haven't regretted the $30 cost. Wayne On 7/17/16, Chip Orange <lists3...@comcast.net> wrote: > It might … but I thought they bought map data from NavTech or some company > like that (at least they did for their other braille note products). > > > > I don’t know enough about them, but I thought they charged a yearly fee, and > I didn’t want to own them like that if that was the case. > > However, I am really disappointed in Blind Square so far. > > > > Chip > > > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of englishride...@gmail.com > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 2:29 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Blind Square and Four Square > > > > Doesn't Seeing Eye GPS use Google Maps data? I thought it did. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Ari > > > On Jul 17, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Chip Orange <lists3...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I really wish we had a blind-friendly navigational GPS app which used Google > map data; I don’t know why we don’t, the Google data is freely available (I > wrote such an app for laptops running Window-Eyes, which had a GPS > receiver). Yes, there could be a charge from Google to the app developer if > you have a high enough volume of data queries, but it was very small, so > charging a little something for the app should easily cover it. I never had > to pay anything. > > > > Google would also give you all the POIs as well as the mapping data (I did > in my app), so you would not have to use four square. I think it would be a > big improvement. > > > > > > Chip > > > > > > > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Andy Baracco > Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 10:31 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Blind Square and Four Square > > > > In my area i have seen 4square POIs that were as much as half a mile away > from the actual location. > > Andy > > > > From: Chip Orange <mailto:lists3...@comcast.net> > > Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 6:03 PM > > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > > Subject: RE: Blind Square and Four Square > > And I have to say it’s map data isn’t all that accurate in smaller towns > which may not have a lot of OSM volunteers to correct it. They need to > allow people who are blind to submit corrections somehow. > > > > Try Arriadne GPS for more accurate mapping data, but without the four square > business info. > > > > Chip > > > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Larry Lumpkin > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 9:36 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Blind Square and Four Square > > > > Blindsquare uses 4 square’s database of pois. You don’t have to have a 4 > square account to use blindsquare but I think it helps you check into a > place if you wish. I don’t use the internals of 4 square so don’t know much > about it. 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