I recently purchased Blind Square and am very disappointed. It uses "open source" map data from Open Street Maps, and is quite inaccurate in my area. When I wrote to them asking for some way to have a feature where we could offer map data corrections, or to ask if they could use Google Map data, they told me they only updated their map data once a year, so giving us a feature to offer map data corrections would still leave us with map problems for a long time, so wasn't worth it. They were unapologetic and unconcerned about the quality of the map data as far as I could tell.
Blind Square, as far as this newbie can tell, does not offer you directions either; it relies on your use of Apple maps or Google maps. So I also have to wonder what exactly I am getting besides street names which are wrong or missing, and no way to correct them, and map updates only once a year??? Really??? I had just assumed they would always be using the most up to date data just like Google maps, so this was a huge disappointment to me. Chip -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 4:47 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Blindsquare and Google Maps Hi All, I have mostly been using Google Maps to get walking directions. Can anyone tell me what advantages I would gain if I purchase Blindsquare to use in conjunction with Google Maps as opposed to using Google Maps by itself? I know Blindsquare has been discussed quite a lot on the list, but I am having trouble figuring out what I would gain by using it along with Google Maps or Apple Maps. Sorry if I am just being dense. We will be traveling to the U.K. soon, and we are not at all familiar with the areas we will be visiting, so I am trying to decide if it might be worth purchasing this app. Thanks for any thoughts on this. Pam -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.