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American Printing House

About this app

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 Indigo is a fully accessible turn-by-turn GPS app. (delete for iPhone as we also have 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, POIs and settings

Indigo has the option to explore POIs or route turning points virtually.

Transit Routes can be created and nearby transit stops will be announced.

A unique Indigo 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 upper right corner tells you what is in the direction your phone is pointing. The More Info button on the Location screen 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 starting with a POI and 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.

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American Printing House for the Blind, APH, developer

Ratings and reviews

Right out of the gate I was disappointed. I'm partially sighted (at this time). I am photophobic and require a true dark mode color scheme for the UI. This app presents a mix mode UI where a portion of the UI is dark mode and the other is light mode. If you need or prefer one or the other you are out of luck. While the UI is high contrast no matter how I set it or tweak system settings part of the UI is going to be inaccessible (visually) to me. This is a HUGE swing and miss.

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

I am sad that every time I try to use the Visual Maps feature, all I have is a grey blank window, and no map appears. I don't know if anyone else is facing the same issue because I haven't seen any information to troubleshoot and fix the problem.

What’s new

Foursquare POI fix.