Nearby Explorer Online para Android

11 detalles sobre Nearby Explorer Online

1. The app treats transit stops just like favorites and points of interest by announcing their name and relative position as you move, but in addition, transit stops add next vehicle stop time, direction of travel, and route name to the announcements.

2. You may also use the devices position and orientation to obtain additional targeted details such as pointing the end of the device to scan for points of interest or tilting it vertically to function as a compass.

3. Nearby Explorer Online works with any device running iOS version 9 or later, but if the device does not contain its own GPS receiver, like most iPads and iPods, you must use an external GPS receiver outdoors.

4. (All announcements are optional.) All of this information is shown on the Home screen and is available at any time, but typical use is to adjust the level of announcements, then lock the screen and put the device away.

5. It supports onboard maps from OpenStreetMap, and can optionally augment these maps with online data from Google Places or Foursquare.

6. You may also create favorites, name them, and share them on OpenStreetMap so others can benefit from the places you mark and identify.

7. You may even mark a point, then use the position of the device to get haptic feedback about that point's location.

8. These include typical items like street name, address, and nearby places as well as the distance and direction to them.

9. Nearby Explorer Online is a free outdoor and indoor location app designed for use by people who are blind.

10. The app works by letting you select from several different location related options about what to announce as you move.

11. A transit feature is included which provides detailed mass transit schedules for over 100 metropolitan areas in the U.