Ariadne GPS 4.0.1
Device: iOS Universal
Category: Navigation
Price: $5.99, Version: 4.0 -> 4.0.1 (iTunes)
Description:There are hundreds of gps apps. Do we really need one more?Ariadne GPS is more than a simple gps app.Besides offering you the possibility to know your position and to get information about the street, the number, etc. it also lets you explore the map of what's around you.What do we mean by saying "explore"? You'll deal with a talking map. If you have VoiceOver activated on your device, you will be able to know the street names and numbers that are around you by touching them.Just put your finger on the screen of your device, when showing the map and moving it you will be told the info's about the street you're touching.Your position is on the center of the screen. What's in front of you is on the top half of the screen and things behind you are on the bottom half of the screen.You can also explore a different region than the one around you by telling the app the street and the city.You can ask for information about your position at any time, also activating a function, called monitor, that will give you this info periodically (Please read the note below).This app has also got some other useful features that might help when walking or traveling by bus, train etc.If you add your favourite points to the app database, you can be alerted when you get closer than a certain distance to one of them.This app is completely accessible using VoiceOver and gives you access to information that are normally unavailable to people using the speech synthesizer and can be therefore especially useful to blind and partially sighted people. Note: The features of Ariadne GPS are based on the location services and on the Maps server for what concerns the information about the position. This information may not be accurate, due to the location accuracy, which is generally below fifteen metres but in some cases can be few tens of metres and to the Maps service, which might be unresponsive at certain times (Ariadne GPS will tell you if this is the case). The aim of Ariadne GPS is to give you an idea of your position and what is around you. Please do not completely rely on it.Please note that the use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.For more info and suggestions please visit http://www.ariadnegps.eu
What's New
1. Translation improvements;2. Small accessibility issue fixed;3. Keyboard Done button label changed in Edit view;4. Minor bug fixes.New features from version 4.0: Please note: Some of the new features are only available under in app purchase. Your purchase will help us go ahead with the development and improvement of this app.1. "Custom favorites": It is now possible to give each favorite different values for what concerns distance, sounds, vibration, alert repeats, etc.; 2. "Preset profiles": You can quickly apply a preset profile to a favorite or reset the default values. The preset profiles are: on foot, bike, bus, train, default (taken from the General settings); 3. "Active favorites": You can now choose which favorites in your archive to monitor. Only active favorites will fire notifications; 4. "Favorite list filter": You can show three different sets of favorites by using three buttons on the top of the favorites list: a. "All", complete list; b. "Customized", all favorite for which the settings were modified; c. "active", all favorites that were activated and are being monitored; 5. "Actions on the search results": It is now possible to apply different actions, such as Activation, Customization, Sharing, Deletion to all of the favorites in a search result; 6. "Favorite button": When you activate some favorites or you track one of them, you can switch between the closest favorite, the closest active favorite and the tracked one and read the distance and angle for each ones. This can be done through the favorite detail button on the home screen. In all three cases there are two other functions you can do using this button that are contextual the shown favorite. a. "Favorite detail" (For VO users: double tap, second long); b. "Edit detail" (For VO users: double tap, flick on any direction on the second); 7. "Quick save a new favorite": You can now quickly add a new favorite by simply doing a long tap on the Add button on the home screen (For VO users, double tap, the second long). This will save the point without the need to open the Add favorite screen; 8. "Update location": This button has been added to the Add favorite screen and Edit favorite screen and allows you to update the coordinate of the point stored (e.g. in edit you can update a previous bad quality value); 9. "New search in Explore area": You can now do a new search in Explore area without going back to the home screen; 10. "Distance between two favorites": By activating the editing mode for the list of favorites and selecting only two points, you can read the distance between the two by using the action button. This distance is the distance as the crow flies; 11. "State label in the Favorite detail": In the favorite detail screen you can see the state for each favorite using the new label on the top, which reports the states: a. tracked; b. active; c. customized. This label will appear only if the favorite has at least one of these state enabled. 12. Swedish localization introduced; 13. Portuguese localization improved; 14. Minor bug fixes and features. PLEASE NOTE: The favorites archive structure has been updated. Everything should work fine and your favorites will be updated to the new version of the database. It is nevertheless strongly recommended that you make a copy of your previous archive by exporting you favorites before updating. If you don't know how to do this please visit the faq section on the website.
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