Presuming the route from their apartment to the mailbox is outside, BlindSquare could mark the mailbox as a place, then give information about distance and direction if that was tracking was turned on. It would say things like, Mailbox 800 feet at 10 o’clock. Seeing Eye GPS recently added waypoints. I have not tried them, but I gather if you walk a route it will mark your turns and you could make the mailbox a favorite.
I cannot remember the name of the app that is primarily designed to track the path you walk and allow you to retrace it. Is it MyWay classic? There are probably others. HTH, Richard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert Doc Wright Sent: Saturday, July 8, 2017 11:30 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Another question about gps apps To help her out she and her husband are moving to a new complex and are hoping to create a POI at the mailbox then set a gps app to plan a route to that poi. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Turner<mailto:richardturne...@outlook.com> To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 8, 2017 1:38 PM Subject: Re: Another question about gps apps Blind Square is not strictly speaking a GPS app. It does not do turn-by-turn directions. But, once you find the point of interest you want, Blind Square can launch Google maps, Apple Maps, or several paid GPS apps. If all you want is the turn-by-turn directions, Google Maps does a fine job. Richard On Jul 8, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Lelia <leliastr...@gmail.com<mailto:leliastr...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, so here is a question, I know with google maps you can get directions say from your place to a store or something like that. Can you do the same with a GPS app like blindsquare? Say can you get directions from my house to a point of interest? Is there a GPS app that can do something like that? Thanks for any tips you can give. Lelia -- 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. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>. 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