In addition to selecting the right options in settings it is also worth
remembering that the mobile has to be positioned correctly relative to the
direction of travel. I have been querying this with the Lazarillo help-desk
in connection with the relative direction option. They say that in order for
the announcements to be accurate.
1. When a destination is selected. " With relative directions active, only
the first instruction will consider the direction in which your phone is
pointing, but all the others will be regarding the direction you are moving,
therefore there would be no problem if you take the phone in your pocket."
For this first instruction the narrow edge at the top of the phone must be
pointing forward.
2. When Lazarillo is being used for general information purposes and a
destination has not been designated, the mobile being in your pocket for
example. The screen has to face the body and the back forwards.
Hope this helps.
Peter
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Satnavs
Hi,
Well if you don't set up Lazarillo, you may not get the results you want.
You can change it to give you left right, compass or clock face information.
All the best
Steve
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Sent: 01 February 2021 11:15
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Satnavs
Hi Barry,
I use Soundscape a lot and love it. I don't find it announcing things the
wrong way around much if at all. I think most apps are taking their data
from publically available maps and so they somethimes tell you about places
which don't exist anymore. It would be good if any of these apps allowed you
to easily report that sort of wrong reporting, but I don't think they do.
I also have Lazarillo here. I took it for a walk in a known area yesterday
and wasn't very impressed. Admittedly I was using initial settings, but
while it announced upcoming intersections, it did not tell me which side of
the road they were on. So a roundabout could be announced with four or five
roads, but with no indication of how to find those specific roads. I also
missed the stereo which I have got used to with Soundscape.
I always let people know who ask, that navigating using the phone is at
least as much an art as a science, and that it should never be seen as a
replacement for good mobility skills and concentration on your surroundings.
That is why I now use bone conduction headphones which allow you most of
your normal hearing as well as input from the phone.
Hope this is of some use, John
At 08:11 30/01/2021, you wrote:
Hi all
Im doing a little research on a certain type of satnav for vi people
for my local blind society. I have a few questions:
· Besides Blind Square and Soundscape,
what apps can announce streets and places of interest as you come to them?
· Soundscape tells you streets that are
coming up; do any other apps do that?
· When I was using it nearly two years
ago, Soundscape sometimes gave me feedback the wrong way around, as if
I was facing the opposite direction. Has that been fixed?
· Blind Square used to be too verbose,
giving too much information. Is that still the case?
· Are the maps and Points of Interest
still open source that are sometimes/often out of date?
Thanks in anticipation.
Cheers
Barry
