[Mt-blind] GPS for the Blind

[Jim Marks]

Very cool!  Does the Trekker come with a keyboard of some sort?  I wonder
how you type information to generate the information with the Trekker.

The Trekker Breeze, which was just released this spring, may be a good
option for some.  It's sort of a Trekker light.  Yes,  that is a beer
analogy, folks.  The Breeze touts its simplicity.  It gives users
information about your location, but it does not permit the more
sophisticated features that the full fledged Trekker does.  If someone is
looking for a device to use for walking or driving around, it would do the
trick nicely.  Truth is, using the Trekker or the system I use, the Braille
Note PK and Sendero GPS, is fairly complicated.  It took me a while to
figure out how to use my system well enough to guide my driver in heavy
big-city vehicle traffic.  Heather's information about training is a vital
component of this technology.  However, one might be able to use the Breeze
right out of the box without too much trouble.  And everything comes with
good training materials, too.




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Jim Marks
blind.grizzly at gmail.com