Hi Donna, 1. No, FourSquare is not required for BlindSquare to work.
2. I am not sure about what you said about GPS info being gathered from other apps. I have Navigon and I guess everybody who has an iPhone 4S or 5 and upgraded to iOS 6 has Apple Maps, but I have never noticed anything different although I can't remember if I ever had one of these apps running as well while I was using BlindSquare. 3. BlindSquare will tell you about upcoming intersections, but there is no information as to whether an intersection is a 4-Way or 3-Way intersection. The Seeing Eye app is the only iOS GPS app which will give you that sort of detail. I did read in another post a week or so ago that apparently BlindSquare might be working on providing this information, but I have not looked into that myself hence I can only repeat what I heard. 5. Yes, you can have Blindsquare running when you are on a bus and it will give you cross streets, but if the bus travels quite fast it might lag behind. It should be OK for most city busses which have frequent stops and mostly don't build up that much speed in between. Keep in mind, though, that your phone has to be pointing the way you are going for cross street announcements to work properly. I find that when I am walking I get the best results when I have my phone in my belt clip case which I can swivel so that the phone is in landscape mode so to speak with the top of the phone pointing the way I am going. I can't answer Question 4 since it must be so secret that you went straight from 3 to 5 *smile*. If you don't necessarily require the ability to enter a route and get turn-by-turn directions and don't want the yearly or 3-year subscription which you have to get for the Seeing Eye app to work, then BlindSquare is in my opinion the best app and worth every Cent. I also bought Ariadne GPS long before I bought BlindSquare, but I find BlindSquare much better when it comes to getting information about upcoming cross streets and it's also easy to set your own points. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 4:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Question regarding blind square Hi I just listened to a demonstration podcast on blind square. I have a couple questions. I apologize in advance if these questions sound dumb. 1. It was mentioned on the podcast, that blind square uses four square to obtain points of interest. Do Ihave to have four square installed on my iPhone and running for blind square to work? 2. It was also mentioned that GPS info is gathered from other GPS apps like TomTom, Navigon and Apple maps. Do I need to have one of these GPS apps installed and open and running while blind square is in use? 3. I can't recall from the podcast, Does blind square announce upcoming 4 way intersections? 5. Can blind square be used on public transportation? Blind square sounds like the perfect travelling app for my needs. Thanks in advance. Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
