Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-04 Thread Mauricio Almeida
oh. thank you for that. it isn't extremely high then, I just wanted to make sure:) will be downloading and purchasing it later today. Mauricio On Nov 4, 2012, at 1:30 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > I do have a counters in beta version so I can give some numbers. If you are > in area where there

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-03 Thread Ilkka Pirttimaa
I do have a counters in beta version so I can give some numbers. If you are in area where there is reasonable amount of places, one call to FourSquare is 32 KB. I tested that in center of New York, it's 40 KB. One call the get nearest street crossings (OSM) is 4 KB. BlindSquare knows the area it h

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-03 Thread Mauricio Almeida
hello there. I want to use this app, but iw ould like to discuss something with you first. do you have any way of estimating how much data it uses? i want to upgrade my plan accordingly. thank you mauricio On Nov 3, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > It's 15 USD. You pay it once and u

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-03 Thread Ilkka Pirttimaa
It's 15 USD. You pay it once and use it forever. Big part of the price is it's own TTS that some users love and someone would like that it would use VoiceOver only. I have to also mention that it uses paid high quality backend services for OpenStreetMaps that I pay for each users all the time. I j

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-03 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Ilkka, I had my phone in a case which has a velcro flap. It was either on my belt or in my hand, mostly in my hand. It was definitely not held by the window. I was in the front seat of the bus. My preference would be to keep the phone in the case, but if it matters, while on the bus, I c

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-03 Thread matthew Dyer
How much is this app? Is there a way to try it first before I buy? Matthew On Nov 3, 2012, at 1:23 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa wrote: > When you select a target, it reports your distance and clock face to that > target. When you were on a bus, were you sitting close to window and your > device on th

Re: How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-02 Thread Ilkka Pirttimaa
When you select a target, it reports your distance and clock face to that target. When you were on a bus, were you sitting close to window and your device on the side of the window? You should do that, then device has GPS signal. Otherwise it uses cell tower estimation or even wifi based location t

How Best to Track My placees

2012-11-02 Thread Les Kriegler
I am confused about how to track. I set a place from within my places which was at an office I work out of. I set it up at my home address. It reported after I set it up that it was 0 feet; at the time, I ignored that message. I then got on the bus and while on route, started tracking the of