Quite informative and a good explanation of the various old and new services/apps.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2023 11:27 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names Here is an article that may clear up some confusion. For Immediate Release GoodMaps Continues to Provide Enhanced Wayfinding thru Partnerships with Intel, Mapping UK Stations and Stores LOUISVILLE, Ky. (February 21, 2022) – GoodMaps, born out of American Printing House for the Blind (APH), continues to create innovative wayfinding experiences for the visually impaired. With a recently announced partnership with Intel, expansion of wayfinding through UK train stations and grocery stores, an acquisition of Sendero GPS, the beginning of APH GoodMaps Education and the start of the 2022 Smart Cities project with APH. As part of the Intel RISE Technology Initiative (IRTI), GoodMaps is collaborating with Intel to deliver a high-quality indoor wayfinding solution for all, with special emphasis on improving indoor navigation for people including those who are blind or low vision, mobility impaired, and deaf or hard of hearing. With GoodMaps technology people can safely, effectively and easily navigate indoor spaces resulting in greater independence when traveling. In the United Kingdom, GoodMaps has revolutionized the way passengers' access, utilize, and travel throughout railway stations, due to the partnership with Transpennine Express. Any passenger traveling through TPE stations will now be able to navigate with turn-by-turn directions throughout their stations using the GoodMaps Explore app, available on both iOS and Android free of charge. GoodMaps Explore can navigate travelers from the station entrance, through ticket barriers, and onto their train, with confidence and ease. By providing an inclusive navigation solution to the TPE transportation community, GoodMaps technology increases the adoption of public transport with a new enhanced wayfinding experience. GoodMaps recently acquired the Sendero GPS mobile app from Aira and released the subscription apps, Seeing Eye GPS, RNIB Navigator and Guide Dogs NSW under the name GoodMaps Outdoors for free. These state-of-the-art digital maps are then made available in the GoodMaps Explore app, which provides audio instructions to communicate routing and critical spatial 1839 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206 information as users move throughout a space, whether indoors or outdoors. The app can be downloaded for free in the Apple App Store or Android Marketplace. GoodMaps requires no infrastructure or beacons in a building. Others require dozens of beacons, which are costly and require maintenance. By utilizing LiDAR and image recognition, GoodMaps provide fast and accurate maps of indoor spaces at a fraction of the effort and costs. About American Printing House for the Blind’s GoodMaps Explore GoodMaps Explore is an accessible navigation application. It helps everyone, visually impaired or not, navigate indoors and outdoors safely and efficiently. To make that happen, GoodMaps is on a mission to map the great indoors by streamlining that process. We can accurately map a building in the time it takes to walk through it. All of these maps are available to Explore app users. Another revolutionary aspect of GoodMaps Explore is the superior positioning accuracy provided by camera-based positioning (CPS). CPS is not limited to indoor positioning and has the potential to bring this accuracy level outdoors. For more information, please go to www.GoodMaps.com<http://www.GoodMaps.com>. Article at: https://www.aph.org/app/uploads/2022/05/Feb.-2022-Release-Only-GoodMaps-Update-FINAL-2-21-22.pdf Richard, USA. “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” -- Jane Wagner from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe My web site: https://www.turner42.com From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2023 11:11 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names Sorry, forgot to make the "GoodMaps Outdoors<https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodmaps-outdoors/id945756779>" title into a link in my previous message. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2023 11:10 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names Can you provide a link because I think you are mixing up a number of old and new apps. There used to be an app called Nearby Explorer from American Printing House and the nof course there was the Seeing Eye GPS app which still seems to be lingering in the app store. I did, however, not find anything any more when I searched for Nearby Explorer. To my knowledge there are now just the two apps from GoodMaps Inc.,: GoodMaps Outdoors This is what the Seeing Eye GPS used to be, very similar app layout, the description is as follows: GoodMaps Outdoors is a fully accessible turn-by-turn GPS app for iPhone. It has all the outdoor navigation features you expect plus unique offerings you cannot get anywhere else, including extra verbosity for blind users. • Four main tabs are easy to access at the bottom of the screen: Routes, Location (Default), POIs and Settings. • A unique GoodMaps Outdoors feature: Record a route using breadcrumbs, called Waypoints. No other accessible app has this. You can add these waypoints with the add button or you can shake the phone to create a Waypoint. It also automatically records a point after you have gone a certain distance. These Waypoint routes can be saved for future use. • The Lookaround Wand in the top right tells you what is around. • The More Info button gives the altitude and speed. • Create your own POIs and share your POIs with others or keep them private with a shortcut on the Location page or from the POIs page. • POI categories are announced with search results and make finding your destination easier. • Audio tones and vibrations give feedback throughout the app, letting you know about upcoming turns, critical intersection information, and when search is loading. • A robust route menu includes multiple methods of choosing a destination, from starting with a POI, an address from your contact list, your route history, and many more! • Settings include many customization options like: vibrations, vision contrast, color settings, and distance units. • There are announcement options like right, left, clockface or both. GoodMaps Explore<https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/goodmaps-explore/id1524698552> This seems to be focusing more on indoor navigation in what are referred to as "mapped locations", the first part of the description is as follows: Discover the world with GoodMaps Explore. Accurate indoor* and outdoor† information and navigation for people who are blind or visually impaired. The "* and †" notations are explained further down as follows: *† where available From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Robert Doc Wright Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2023 2:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names the renewed Seeing eye gps is called explore. I'm going to see how close it gets to plotting routes compared to the original. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Long<mailto:dennisl1...@gmail.com> To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 1:49 PM Subject: RE: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names Joseph first seeing eye and Good maps are made by two companies so they aren’t the same thing. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Julian Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 8:47 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names Hi Robert, I'm not sure why you would continue to pay for using Seeing Eye GPS when you can download and use the new version of it called GoodMaps Outdoors for free. Does the old one offer something that Good Maps does not? Just curious. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 23, 2023, at 6:09 PM, Robert Doc Wright <yeshua.talmi...@gmail.com<mailto:yeshua.talmi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Lazarillo and Seeing Eye Gps. Though they have supposedly changed its name I'm still using it under its original name. It costs $5.99 a month but there is no auto-renew. So you use it when you wish to.----- Original Message ----- From: lynda.ingra...@gmail.com<mailto:lynda.ingra...@gmail.com> To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 11:03 AM Subject: GPS Apps That Will Announce Street Names Hellow Everyone, I am beginning home training Monday with my new guide. I am interested in a gPS app that will just read the street names as I walk. Due to health issues, I have forgotten street names, but still know the route. I have my phone paired with my hearing aids. It would be really great if the app provided information regarding whether an intersection has lights or stop signs. 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