I'm looking for an app that will give me good walking directions, not the same as driving directions.
Next week, I'm going to an address in my town I don't know. I put it into Google Maps and chose walking directions, but really they were driving directions. They took me around a plaza I can walk through, then winding around a bunch of streets I don't actually need to use, then crossing a major road at an intersection where there is no traffic signal. Pretty much useless.
Is there an app that actually has directions for pedestrians? I'd be using my iPhone.
Thanks.
Tracy
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Blindsquare
Blind square is a good app.
I mean…
I just use Google maps. Even did it when I was backpacking across Canada in the United States for like three years. Completely blind traveler here.
Perhaps Voice Vista
Designed for blind travellers. There is a thread for it below.
https://applevis.com/apps/ios/navigation/voicevista
BlindSquare won't work
BlindSquare is good for lots of things but doesn't give turn-by-turn directions, so it won't solve your problem.
Are you sure that you chose walking?
You have to choose to walk, it's been a while since i've used the app but here's what I remember: you type in where you want to go,, then choose the place, then if you keep flicking to the right you should hear something like, transet, walking, and driving, these are each indevidual flicks, tap on walking, then choose a walking option, tap on go or start, then go.
It sounds quite complicated but it isn't once you get used to it.
@Stephen
Hey hitchhiker Stephen! Very cool. I also did that backpacking hitchhiking thing for two years around the U.S., Europe and Scandinavia in 1973, 1974 and early 1975. Smile. Backpacking and hitchhiking alone was the bestg "school" I ever attended.