[macvoiceover] Re: Navigon
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 14:57:48 -0400
Hi Russell,
Thanks for writing. As the software is so new, I expect that we'll be
feeling our way through the features and such over the coming weeks
and that we'll each have different use cases which will make
conversation interesting as we can learn from each others' perspectives.
This morning, I gave Navigon the address of the local "Y" and
actually gave it a name and put it into my favorites. I used my
current location as the starting point and, in the set destination
screen, pulled up the name (it was alone in the list), hit "start
navigating and walked in the direction it told me and that I knew was
correct. After our first two turns, though, the thing seemed to get
all of whack. It told me to turn left when I knew my destination was
to the right. It gave me street names that were nearby but not the
one I was on or the one I was trying to get to.
The directions got so bad that I finally turned the thing off and, as
usual, my dog and I worked for our Sunday morning routine and found
our location easily.
I am assuming that I did something wrong in the settings as there is
no way anyone would ship a product that got things as bad as this did
this morning. For one thing, when I first asked the thing to build a
route to the "Y" I set pedestrian and some other options; I haven't
looked but I suspect that settings may not stick to routes and that it
had returned to the defaults. If this is the case, I wonder if the
program has a way to allow one to create a profile that super-cedes
the defaults and is automatically used unless otherwise is specified?
I'll go to their web site when I get a chance and see if they have a
user manual and/or tutorial.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
PS: Alex is pronouncing the letter Y (why) as E as in the word for and
in Spanish. While I did eat Mexican for lunch, my day started at the
why.
On Aug 9, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
Hi Chris,
I haven't done too much with setting routes yet. I use it mainly
for watching for my destination as I'm going somewhere in DATS, a
public transit service for the disabled in my city. It's really
nice knowing exactly where I am at all times.
Sorry I can't help more than this.
Russell
On 9-Aug-09, at 6:02 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
Hi,
Last night after listening to the Serotek podcast #20 which had a
segment on the Navigon North American GPS tool, I purchased and let
the AppStore install it for me. I've not gotten to the
documentation as I fell asleep before trying it out so these
questions may be an RTFM but, for now, if anyone has a little
experience with the tool:
Can one get a list of the streets on the route like the list mode
in the iPhone maps program? If so, how does one get to the screen
where this is done? Once I build the destination address, I cannot
seem to get back to a place where I might be able to set map
options. A lot of the pages have a back button but I cannot seem
to find it once I've entered the destination completely.
It does seem quite cool and its accuracy using the iPhone Location
Services really rock.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
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