Well, for POI, FourSquare is reliant on its users checking in to places to identify those places. In the US, many sighted people check in to places with FourSquare. In NZ, on the other hand, some areas have many places marked whilst other areas have only a few, or no places marked. Australia is better marked than NZ, at least for large cities, but smaller towns are not marked very well at all.
The same is true for the free user-identified street maps. Outside heavy smartphone use areas where people are marking streets, nothing will be identified. Therefore, even though Blind Square accesses worldwide data, the data is not readily available outside the US, Canada, UK, and parts of Western Europe. Apple Maps and Google Maps actually access better map data. The same is true for other general market GPS apps which are sold for specific countries. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Oct 2013, at 0:39, Ari Moisio <ar...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Hi > > With Blindsquare this should not matter because both of it's map resources > are globally available. > > IMO there is market and need for blind-specific navigation applications. > Reason is very simple: sighted has only to look the visual map to get > information. For us there should be either quick commands to get needed > information or let the application babble all the time. > > Personally i prefer the former approach. > > > > -- > mr. M01510 & guide Loadstone-GPS > Lat: 62.38718, lon: 25.64672 > hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net B784D020 > 0C1F 6A76 DC9D DD58 3383 8B5D 0E76 9600 B784 D02 > > > David Chittenden kirjoitti >> Subject: Re: BlindSquare, A Disappointment >> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:59:50 +1300 >> From: David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> >> To: "viphone@googlegroups.com" <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Yes, this is part of what I am talking about. The blindness specific GPS >> apps are primarily focused on US, Canada, and UK. >> >> Apple Maps, Google Maps, and general market GPS apps cover many more >> countries. >> >> With the blindness focussed apps, one pays significantly more for >> significantly less. >> >> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com >> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On 28 Oct 2013, at 23:51, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, my answer is somewhat dependent on what you said earlier so i?m >>> replying in the context. See below: >>> >>>> 28 okt 2013 kl. 00:38 skrev Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com>: >>>> >>>> . Ariadne only announces your current street along with address ranges; >>>> BlindSquare announces all this plus cross streets. >>> If it only did, sigh. Joe i agree with you so you?re not alone. I have >>> never to this day seen BS announce any cross streets in any shape or form >>> whatsoever. Points of interest? Yes it announces them, just not streets and >>> intersections, well it can announce streets provided it?s when it announces >>> addresses which it does in long intervals, that is BS is mostly silent when >>> i need it, but when i don?t need it, it blabbers on endlessly sometimes >>> about addresses or streets i?ve already passed. Filtering does nothing it >>> only makes BS even more quiet. I?m sorry and i probably will be flamed to >>> bits for what i have said here, but i don?t understand the hype of the app >>> either. I thought it was me that was stupid as usual, but after having >>> tried BS in various situations i wonder if i really could be this dense. >>> Something isn?t working with Blind Square where i live in Sweden. 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