Hello Gigi. I purchased the Seeing Eye GPS app, loaded the travis county map and set up an automatic route from my home to a POI. I turned tracking on and walked the route. The Seeing Eye GPS app was completely silent. How do I get it to start giving pedestrian guidance? Thanks so much.
On Jul 28, 2013, at 9:13 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > I just tested Siri out with some directions to make sure I was saying this > right. Here is the way I did it, and I will give you an example. Generally, > it uses your current location to start with if you are sitting somewhere or > in the car. So, when I was sitting here in my house I said "Siri I need > directions to 1100 Commerce St. "Siri immediately went to Maps and had the > directions there and if I had been in a car they would've been spoken. It's > my understanding that with iOS 7, there will be pedestrian mode also. > > I do have NAVIGON, and I like it a lot. I also have the Seeing Eye GPS on my > iPhone as well. I haven't used it enough yet to decide what I think about > that in vehicle mode, but I do like it in pedestrian mode. In fact, I like > the Seeing Eye GPS in pedestrian mode better then Navigon because it tells > you further out what you're going to do. I like that so I can make a decision > to use a different street than the one the application is recommending. > Regards, > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 28, 2013, at 7:34 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can I get a few tips on using Apple Maps with Siri, or just how to use it in >> general? I tried using it a couple times recently when I was looking for a >> particular landmark, and found the mapquest app to be anything but helpful, >> but when I put in the info that I could've spelled wrong, I got no results, >> and don't know how to check it very well when it comes to points of >> interest. I eventually managed to find what I was looking for as we were >> driving, but at that point, what was the point in that sense we were almost >> there? Also, is there a means to using it and running another task in the >> background, or will voiceover not read directions if I've switched tasks? >> It doesn't seem to on my end, but wasn't sure if there was a work-around for >> this, which I find extremely frustrating. >> On Jul 28, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: >> >>> Apple maps with Siri works great. I am also quite impressed with NAVIGON. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Jul 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Shen <goalb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> My wife and I are going to Italy in September for our vacation. >>>> What GPS apps would you recommend that will work well when we are there? >>>> We will have our iPhones with us. >>>> Any recommendations are appreciated. >>>> >>>> Shen >>>> goalb...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
