[gps-talkusers] Re: a road trip

Hello Jason,

If you have no interest in purchasing either a PacMate or a BrailleNote 
then I would suggest looking into VisuAide's Trekker, its an accessible GPS 
system on an IPAQ PDA.  Currently only the GPS on the PDA is accessible, 
and is a good solution if you want a portable accessible GPS only 
system.  I believe it will do everything you need to do.

http://www.visuaide.com/gpssol.html

Hope this helps
Charles.

At 10:08 PM 11/8/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there Angie,
>I have recently gone to my first workshop to see how the GPS systems work
>for the blind. I had been waiting for about a year for the system to finally
>becomee available. The system I saw is put together by the company Freedom
>Scientific who produce the speech system "JAWS"-which I use on my desk and
>lap tops. The system I saw uses the freedom scientific's "Packmate" for the
>user to enter destination etc. Apparently, the actual GPS system is an off
>the shelf staand alone system. The Packmate itself to buy is about $2,000
>U.S The GPS system is about $400. I do not need the Laptop features of the
>Packmate i.e email, wordd processor etc as I have a laptop. I mainly would
>just like a small, light and cheep system which has speech. I obviously need
>to be able to enter my destination etc. I have only seen the one system.
>However, I have come across a number of others on the net. Which one are
>using? Can you suggest a more affortable system.
>I look forward to hearing from you
>JasonttI
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Angie Hiser" <angiehgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:18 PM
>Subject: [gps-talkusers] a road trip
>
>
> > Good Morning all,
> > Woo Hoo,
> > I went on a little road trip over the week-end. I had such a great time
> > with my gps!
> > I can remember before I had my gps, I hated even short trips! But now I
> > wish I could go on a longer one. I knew right where we were ,  how much
> > longer it was going to be ,  what was around us ,  and how much longer we
> > had to go. It was a great time for me to sit and mess around with it until
> > I got it right!
> > I have to tell you, I have  6 and 7 year old daughters. They were in the
> > back seat, first they were a little upset because I had my headphones on
> > so
> > they could not hear the system. But I did not want to bug my mom who was
> > driving.  The whole way there they were so full of questions. How much
> > longer mom, how long have we been driving. I was able to tell them how far
> > we had already went and how much farther we had to go. It was real cute!
> > They really like mom's new gps! And mom loves to be able to   tell them
> > these things!
> > Thank you so much for all those of you that worked  endlessly on this !
> > What a wonderful thing you have all done!
> >
> > Sincerely, a very happy person,
> > Angie
> >
> >
> >
> >

Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC

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