Grant, I believe you can, however search for an address through the Myplace is option. I've done this to find the office and I work out of and I did this by specifying a street address.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a correction, I did not mean to state that one can search by > exact street address--this seems to not be available. However, address > ranges are announced when walking and you can of course search by the > business name. It also knows about plenty of other residential > locations, too. The other information I provided should be correct. > > Cheers. > > On 1/19/13, Grant Hardy <grantha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I know this app has been discussed on list before, but just wanted to >> mention that in my experience, BlindSquare, which uses open street map >> data and FourSquare points of interest, offers me the best experience >> analogous to holding a Trekker Breeze or a Sendero GPS system while >> walking. The information can be a little verbose, but you can change >> what gets announced. Cross streets are consistently announced as well >> as your heading, which do not work reliably for me in other apps. >> Ariadne misses lots of cross streets, and Apple Maps with VoiceOver >> repeats many data numerous times while omitting lots of cross streets. >> Blindsquare can also track your distance and direction from any of the >> POIs it knows about, a custom address, or even a custom POI. So you >> have both commercial POIs and custom POIs in the same app, which is a >> nice bonus. >> >> No turn by turn directions are available, but it's easy to select an >> address or a POI and tell BlindSquare to open another navigation app >> such as Apple Maps or Navigon, with the destination already set up so >> you can easily plan a route. And since BlindSquare uses its own speech >> rather than VoiceOver, it'll continue talking even while your device >> is locked or while you're in another navigation app. >> >> Sorry if this is common knowledge, but just wanted to offer this brief >> review because I've been very very impressed with an app that I never >> thought I'd use--I don't use FourSquare! With BlindSquare, I feel >> confident that most of the data you'd expect to hear from a blindness >> specific GPS device will be there for me. >> >> Grant > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
