That would be cool if you could run your finger over a map of a city and have it read the streets that your finger passes over. I could get use out of that.
My biggest objection to the maps and really to the idea of running the fingers over the screen to have speech feedback would be the responsiveness. I'd like it to be instant as I put my finger over it. A bigger objection is the 2-year plan with data that they make you commit to. Since I can neither conceive of the utility nor the money to agree to this, I probably will have to skip the iphone for now. Regards Justin Harford On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > Well, if it's anything like what Google Transit is, the directions > are very vague at the point where you're done riding the bus. For > example, it might say to take a certain bus to the transit center, > transfer to another bus, get off at a given street corner, but then > it just says something like "then walk to whatever address". This > means that we still have no clue which direction you go after you > get off the last bus, how far to go, etc. I'm sure the exact path to > take is probably displayed visually in a way screen readers on > computers can't read. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Josh de Lioncourt > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:17 PM > Subject: Re: The iphone and gps > > > Google Maps, from what I'm told, provides walking and public transit > directions. If that's the case, it should work quite well for VO > users, given that the Google Maps app is supposed to be accessible. > > If it is not sufficient, Google Maps functionality is available to > iPhone developers, so someone will doubtless get this working at > some point. > > > Josh de Lioncourt > …my other mail provider is an owl… > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt > Music: http://stage19music.com > Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com > Blog: http://lioncourtsmusings.blogspot.com > GoodReads: http://goodreads.com/Lioncourt > > On Jun 10, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Jed Barton wrote: > >> >> Hey guys, >> What do you guys see as a solution for those who want a gps on the >> iphone, >> do you think we're out of luck? >> I couldn't find something that might work as a solution. Any >> thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> Jed >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
