{"id":1898,"date":"2013-07-09T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2013-07-09T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:42:20","slug":"peoplefinder-lite-7913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"PeopleFinder Lite, 7\/9\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PeopleFinder Lite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sendero Group has produced\u00a0accessible mapping and GPS software for many years.\u00a0 They just released their long-awaited navigation app for the iPhone, which I will not be reviewing today.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Sendero has also made a first stab at solving a problem common to all, but perhaps particularly annoying to the blind &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 finding someone in a crowd.\u00a0The PeopleFinder app is extremely simple.\u00a0 It broadcasts your location via Bluetooth.\u00a0 This lets someone close by know you are present and apparently a message about your location can also be sent.\u00a0 Note that my difficulty with this feature may have been the result of operator error.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than broadcasting personal information, you can use any text you like, though mine defaulted to Joel&#8217;s iPhone.\u00a0 Your phone number is also an option.<\/p>\n<p>So, how might this be useful?\u00a0 Sure, the original suggestion of finding someone at a large outdoor event might be simplified.\u00a0 How about knowing that the person you are meeting is on the bus which just pulled up.\u00a0 Since Bluetooth range is limited, this would be a handy trick.<\/p>\n<p>Not by coincidence, PeopleFinder is available in the App Store now and is free.\u00a0 While it wasn&#8217;t quite released in time for the National Federation of the Blind Convention in Orlando this year, it will surely get much field testing at the upcoming American Council for the Blind convention in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1898\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PeopleFinder Lite Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator Sendero Group has produced\u00a0accessible mapping and GPS software for many years.\u00a0 They just released their long-awaited navigation app for the iPhone, which I will not be reviewing today. Instead, Sendero has also made a first stab at solving a problem common to all, but perhaps particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}