I'm listening to the WWDC keynote now, and I just heard something exciting.
It says that Apple is allowing developers (plural, he said "developers", which could mean more than just Tomtom) to build apps with turn by turn directions, built on the maps application.
If I understand this correctly, maps uses GPS in conjunction with Google Maps.
This being the case, and since Google Maps does give textual routes, it sounds to me as though some clever person could, indeed, build a talking navigation application for the iPhone.
This of course doesn't negate my main beef with such systems (like Wayfinder Access, for instance): their reliance on a wireless (i.e. cellular) connection. However, since we have to have the data plan anyway, I reckon I could live with it. If, that is, there were a provision to have it download big pieces of map and use those when cell coverage isn't available.
Just thinking aloud here, but this could be potentially even *more* groundbreaking. Especially if the app can be made inexpensively. Remember, there shouldn't be any licensing of proprietary third party stuff here, since there's a screen reader built in for the app to talk to, and we're using Google Maps here, not some other database that would require licensing. Anyone who actually has a clue about these things wanna chime in? How 'bout it Janey? :)
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