Hi all,
The latest version of "AroundMe" for the iPhone/iPod Touch features
integration with Navigon's MobileNavigator GPS app for points of
interest. As with the "Where To? - GPS points of interest" app
integration with Navigon, the routing application can either be Maps
or Navigon MobileNavigator.
Choose a category or your "Favorites" and double tap to bring up a
list view. Select your point of interest and double tap. Find your
selection on the map area of the Info page and double tap the "More
info" button. In the current version of "AroundMe" double tapping the
"Show Route" button allows you to select the routing application as
either "Maps" or "Navigon MobileNavigator" if you have this app on
your iPhone or iPod Touch. Double tapping the "Navigon
MobileNavigator" button opens the Navigon GPS app at the start page,
then takes you to the point of interest you selected. Double tap the
"More" button to (optionally) save this location as a Favorite and to
choose the "Route Profile" (that allows you to set your speed profile
to "car", "bicycle", or "pedestrian", etc., specify type of route,
allow or disallow highways, residents only streets, etc.). When
you're done double tap the "Back" button in the upper left corner to
return to the point of interest. Double tap the "Start Navigation"
button in the top right corner to start navigating.
Earlier versions of Navigon's MobileNavigator limited your ability to
use points of interests to what was already in Navigon's app -- so if
you wanted the flexibility of searching with the various category
filter options of AroundMe you'd have to first use that app and save a
point of interest to your contacts so that when you used
MobileNavigator you could access it through your contacts. The
current version of MobileNavigator is supposed to offer better points
of interest support both through the "Search for POI" button in the
app and through it's integration with other apps like AroundMe and
Where To? and through support for Google searches.
I haven't used Navigon very much (I'm still accessing this from an
iPod Touch without a GPS add-on), so I'm much more familiar with using
AroundMe (got this free app among my earliest downloads) and Maps than
Navigon or Where To? for points of interest. I didn't find a settings
entry for AroundMe that lets me make Navigon's MobileNavigator the
default routing app choice. Those of you who use Where To? should
note Geoff's nice post noting this settings option.
I'd be interested in hearing more comments about differences in the
way points of interest are identified or laid out under categories in
these apps. For example, Where To? breaks down restaurants by kind of
cuisine, and locates "Apple Stores" under "Shopping" that include
authorized dealers that aren't just Apple retail locations (such as
AroundMe uses).
AroundMe (free) by TweakerSoft:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aroundme/id290051590?mt=8
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
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