Well it is certainly an important feature. Probably the biggest breakthrough
of my mobility experience was discovering that that method actually worked
when I put the back door of my building in Cincinnati and could get there.
It actually freed me from the "tunnel" existance which so many blind people
live in.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:29 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: sing GPS with outdated maps
Peggy,
In BrailleNote GPS version 1, we didn't have maps and could only use the "getting warmer" method of navigating. In countries where we don't have maps, this still comes in useful like our trip to Costa Rica last Christmas and this August in Chile. It isn't as efficient as automatic routes of course but it can work after some trial and error as you learned.
Mike At 10:20 PM 6/18/2005, you wrote:Hi, all. We're visiting my sister-in-law in Washington. She lives in a new development in the city which isn't on the current GPS maps. I labeled her house as a point of interest last night, even though the streets in the area weren't recognized. Today my husband and I were out and about, and when we were trying to get back to my sister-in-law's house, I decided to try making a route. It didn't seem to be of any use, but what did prove useful was marking my sister-in-law's house as a destination, then checking the destination to see if we were getting closer. My husband had to call his sister to get directions to get us into the right area, but she had to hang up before we actually got there. So I kept checking the destination when we were almost there. My husband couldn't tell exactly where to turn, but by using the destination command to check how far we were from it, I could tell him when he'd apparently passed it, and eventually got him to turn on the right street
by telli
ng him we were getting closer to the destination. So even with its outdated maps, there are a lot of ways to use GPS.
Peggy
