Hi,
I bet it uses OpenStreet maps which are rubbish in the UK.
All the best
Steve
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hi there if the app is written in america may this is what has happened.
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well.
Jackie - all
My feeling is that it isn't that straight forward as there are several
places listed as "closed", including a pub which only closed about ten
months ago.
However, one which ceased trading about 8 years ago is still listed as
not being closed. It is now a private house!
One set of public loos is mentioned which also disappeared about the
same time.
I wonder if the app is based on an old database which went out of use,
but was then updated without checking the original.
ATB
David W Wood
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Hi John
I did wonder about that when I played with it yesterday for a few
minutes, and it mentioned one of the banks which is no longer in
Maghera. I wonder what their source is as well.
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Jackie Brown
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hi all very interesting app to me though the database which they are
using is way out of date wonder if one can change it somehow. but for
a blind person it's very very good indeed with everything else we have as
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Thanks for that Pete. Huge choice then but I wouldn't wear a cap
and I wouldn't want the band to go over my head so I am going to
look at the ones that go around the back of my neck.
Jo
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hi Jo,
it tends to be that the more you pay the better the sound, but as
you said if you only want it for speech and not music i find theres
not a lot of difference between various makes.
it's more a case of which style you prefer and wether you want them
to be indiscreet.
there are over the head models, ones that go around the back of your
neck, ones that are built into glasses frames that can have clear,
tinted, or prescription lenses, and ones that are built into a
baseball style cap.
personally i'm not keen on the ones that go over the top of the
head, but of the ones that go around the back of the neck i have
both afshokz and panasonic both of which are good but the panasonic
are better plus they have replaceable batteries.
one of my favourites is the baseball style cap as no one even knows
you are wearing a headset and on this style the transducers are
placed above and behind the ears instead of the norm being infront
of the ears, plus they even sell replaceable transducers of
different strengths so they can be used by people with hearing problems.
this company even have a cap that also has stereo microphones built
into the cap so that people with hearing problems can put it into a
special mode whereby the cap listens to and enhances the ambient
sounds and send it to the transducers similar to wearing hearing aids.
zungle is one make of bone conduction glasses and although they work
ok how well they work i think would depend on how well they fit the
shape of a persons head as the transducers are built into the ends
of the arms.
this may also apply to another pair of glasses that are coming out
shortly, they originally called them vision AI glasses but seem to
have changed the name to Let glass.
these are a pair of smart bone conduction glasses that are Siri,
Google Now, and Alexa compatible and can be controlled by
voiceeagestures, or by touch.
the afshokz and panasonic models you can find in online stores.
the baseball style caps and the different strength transducers you
can buy
from:
www.maxvirtual.com
and the bluetooth bone conduction cap costs $69.
the Let Glass smart bone conduction glasses can still be pledged
for on what they call indemand for a decent reduction of $139
compared to what will be the regular price of $259 at:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/let-glass-enjoy-music-anywhere-wi
th
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hope this helps.
pete.
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