GoodMaps Outdoors is a fully accessible turn-by-turn GPS app for iPhone and Android. It has all the outdoor navigation features you expect plus unique offerings you cannot get anywhere else, including extra verbosity for blind users.
Features
• Four main tabs are easy to access at the bottom of the screen: Routes, Location (Default), POIs and Settings.
• A unique GoodMaps Outdoors feature: Record a route using breadcrumbs, called Waypoints. No other accessible app has this. You can add these waypoints with the add button or you can shake the phone to create a Waypoint. It also automatically records a point after you have gone a certain distance. These Waypoint routes can be saved for future use.
• The Lookaround Wand in the top right tells you what is around.
• The More Info button gives the altitude and speed.
• Create your own POIs and share your POIs with others or keep them private with a shortcut on the Location page or from the POIs page.
• POI categories are announced with search results and make finding your destination easier.
• Audio tones and vibrations give feedback throughout the app, letting you know about upcoming turns, critical intersection information, and when search is loading.
• A robust route menu includes multiple methods of choosing a destination, from starting with a POI, an address from your contact list, your route history, and many more!
• Settings include many customization options like: vibrations, vision contrast, color settings, and distance units.
• There are announcement options like right, left, clockface or both.
When I went out to walk with this app, I found that I could not add more than one waypoint, and had to find other ways to get to my destination.
I found the app to verbose, and very little options to customize it's predecessor nearby explorer, allowed me to choose my text to speech, choose the various options that I would use and was very accurate. Please, if you're going to replace a product either meet the bar that the app set or go above it. Unfortunately I had to give the star that was given by me because you didn't even come near the bar nearby explorer still is shoulders above this app. I wish I will, keep raising your expectations
Please bring back Nearby Explorer with its better interface and features, admit that your attempt at a GPS App has failed, and the community will be much better off. Or hire people who will give you honest, more direct feedback, hopefully blind people who actually go places other than the mailbox down the driveway.
Expanded to include more locations.
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