I am sorry to hear that. I, and I expect many many more people really don't have much use for those note takers so probably will never purchase a Sendero GPS programme so long as that remains the base platform. One might accept the inconvenience if they were low cost devices but they are not and all those battery chargers too.
Is the iPhone inferiority primarily because without cell service it becomes essentially useless? The dependence on cellular service will prejudice Seeing Eye use in Canada too where, to this point, data service costs are really quite high. About the highest in the world. We also have some vast areas of empty cellular coverage. Quite a bit of it doesn't matter much, the 5 hours between here and Sudbury for example but there is only one road and you go only either north or south so GPS isn't really all that necessary there.
WayFinder was a pretty good solution too except for the dependence on cellular service and sadly it is gone along with it's base platform.
Oh well. Dale leavens.----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 9:14 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] using dual GPS is the only way to go
I haven't been skiing for a few years at Kirkwood. The trip is about 2 hours and more than half is completely out of cell range. I like using the SeeingEye GPS app on the iPhone at the same time as the Sendero GPS on the PK inorder to understand the strengths of both. Of course, the PK version has hadover 10 years to mature so it is really the bench mark for accessible GPS.On Highway 16 and 88 where there was no cell service, the iPhone would trackthe route as long as we didn't stray from it.I really couldn't choose a new destination, which turned out to be necessarywhen we got within 10 miles of Kirkwood and the road closed due to a 3 caraccident. After putting chains on and driving at 10 miles an hour, we turnedaround. There were 3 tow trucks within 100 feet of us and two police cars, one was in the ditch.We had to decide, do we wait to see if the cars clear and the road opens, dowe find a hotel or do we go home. This is where the search capabilities ofthe Sendero GPS and explore mode came in very handy. We had lots of time totalk about the options. It gave us something to do as we waited for thepolice car to be pulled out of the ditch so we could proceed back the way wecame. About every 5 miles, there was another car off the road and so we would wait again. I located a hotel about 30 miles down the road. By the time we reached it, we decided it wasn't that far to go back to Sacramento so we did end up going home, a six and a half hour trip that should have taken 2 hours. Wedid try again in the morning and made it to Kirkwood in 3 slow hours but nomajor issues. It was both entertaining and useful to have GPS on this trip. Kim fromSendero was driving. She had her hands full dealing with snow and other carsso it really was helpful that I could be the navigator. As much as I am excited about the iPhone version coming out, when it comes to hard corenavigating, give me my PK any day. I do like having the best of both worlds,power and convenience. Mike Michael May, CEO Sendero Group Developers of accessible GPS and distributors of technology for the blind Office Phone: 888-757-6810, extension 101 Email: MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sendero web: http://www.senderogroup.com General GPS Web: http://www.AccessibleGPS.com Mike May Personal: http://www.CrashingThrough.com Sendero Address: 1857 Glenmark Way, Roseville, CA 95747To change your email settings (unsubscribe, digest only, or vacation mode):http://senderogroup.com/social_media/email.htmAdditionally, to unsubscribe send an email to gps-talkusers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject.
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