Hi, All,
I found something too. Trekker anyone. Their maps are puchasable. If you get a bluetooth GPS dongle/receiver, even the iPod Touch could be your Trekker". I'd be all out on that fronteer. REgards, Alex, On 9-Jun-09, at 10:03 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > > I'm listening to the WWDC keynote now, and I just heard something > exciting. > > It says that Apple is allowing developers (plural, he said > "developers", which could mean more than just Tomtom) to build apps > with turn by turn directions, built on the maps application. > > If I understand this correctly, maps uses GPS in conjunction with > Google Maps. > > This being the case, and since Google Maps does give textual routes, > it sounds to me as though some clever person could, indeed, build a > talking navigation application for the iPhone. > > This of course doesn't negate my main beef with such systems (like > Wayfinder Access, for instance): their reliance on a wireless (i.e. > cellular) connection. However, since we have to have the data plan > anyway, I reckon I could live with it. If, that is, there were a > provision to have it download big pieces of map and use those when > cell coverage isn't available. > > Just thinking aloud here, but this could be potentially even *more* > groundbreaking. Especially if the app can be made inexpensively. > Remember, there shouldn't be any licensing of proprietary third party > stuff here, since there's a screen reader built in for the app to talk > to, and we're using Google Maps here, not some other database that > would require licensing. Anyone who actually has a clue about these > things wanna chime in? How 'bout it Janey? :) > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: (814) 746-4127 or 888-75-BUDDY > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
