Excellent points Don, I have no idea what finally made me decide to buy the app but I definitely never would have considered using it in the past. I never use FourSquare, and I didn't imagine the app would be that much different from other blindness-specific GPS apps. But within the first few minutes of using it, I realized that it truly was a different paradigm and in general, gives me the information I want to know. I'm sure you're right, that getting data from Foursquare yields information other maps simply don't know about. If only iOS allowed us to try apps before purchasing them, BlindSquare would have been on my phone a lot sooner.
Grant On 1/20/13, Don Breda <don.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > I couldn't help but chime in here to further praise BlindSquare. > > I have used every gps out there even trekker for packmate which never > saw the light of day. > > BlindSquare is unbelievable! What it really is is not so much a gps > program like navigon but really the best! pair of eyes bar none a blind > person can have. > > After all that is what we really miss most of the time what stores are > we passing, what street are we approaching etc. > > I live in New York city, in the heart of midtown manhattan and let me > tell you I have found out about more things in my neighborhood that I > never knew were there with Blindsquare then all the gps apps, restaurant > apps restaurant menu apps etc. put together. > > Its truly amazing! > > I only wish I had made the time to nominate it for the appleviz awards > for 2012 because unfortunately this app I feel has been very much > overlooked. I tended to overlook it as well when it first came out and > I truly regret that. > > While I am no fan of 4square, the concept of using things like 4square > to provide info is a great! one. > > Companies like Sendero, navigon mosionX pay big fees to companies like > navtech for POI data and so many times that data is quite inaccurate > very outdated and to say the least incomplete. > > The approach BlindSquare takes to POI info makes so much sense because > the information is always being updated by people like you and I > visiting these places. > > Just my opinion but if you have been on the fence take a look at this > app, give it the attention it deserves and I can't imagine you will > regret it. > > Don > > > -- > Don Breda <don.br...@gmail.com> > > -- > 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.
