[gps-talkusers] Re: seeing eye gps improvements
- From: Carter Temm <crtbraille@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 09:29:12 -0500
Not to mention their devices I'm not accessible either
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:51 AM, "Luke French" <nhbostonfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello all, I would have to say that Google is not friendly to blind people.
> The Google Chrome app is nearly impossible to use with the voice synthesizer.
> Their Google glass only works for the ride I sorry if you don't have a right
> eye.
>
> Luke
>
>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 1:53 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I see this "why don't you use Google Maps" question so often, that I think I
>> need to give my thoughts. I was originally planning to use Google Maps in
>> BlindSquare, but their license explicitly says it is not allowed to be used
>> in apps like this. I tried to contact Google, but it is very hard to get to
>> contact with them, even I have some business channels there.
>>
>> So, as a built in map data source, I don't see Google Maps as an option.
>> They don't have API to get street data in vector form which is often needed
>> in apps like this. What they provide is map in graphical form which is not
>> very useful).
>>
>> Yes, they have possibility to do route plan and search for POI, but for
>> BlindSquare it is not enough (+there is this license issue).
>>
>> So, for this reason, Google Maps is provided only as 3rd party route
>> planning and more detailed map data is coming from OpenStreetMap and Apple
>> Maps.
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:02 AM, brandon armstrong <baarmstrong37@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> hello all, I want to weigh in on what mike may said here. you love
>>> foursquare, my point here, please get google maps in the next version of
>>> this app, like we’ve been asking you to do sense 1.0 and call it a day. do
>>> you know, that we got a bypass here in my location, after the bypass
>>> opened, with in two days of that road opening, google maps starts telling
>>> me turn right on to state highway 9, where your app and some others keep
>>> telling me to continue on to 190. I’m sorry, but for almost real time
>>> updated map info google maps will be your best way to go verses tom tom and
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