{"id":3761,"date":"2016-12-20T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:13:42","slug":"nearby-explorer-app-122016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"Nearby Explorer App, 12\/20\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='text-align: left; color: rgb(56, 45, 54); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>New in our AT Library, and available for demonstration (or loan via one of our iDevices)&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style='text-align: left; color: rgb(56, 45, 54); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style='text-align: left; color: rgb(56, 45, 54); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'><b><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/nearby-explorer\/id1095698497?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Nearby Explorer<\/a><\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>($79.99)&nbsp;a full featured GPS app designed for use&nbsp;by people who are blind. Instead of just providing directions, it describes the environment in ways comparable to reading signage or observing road characteristics.&nbsp;It uses onboard maps, so a data connection is not required, but if you have one, Nearby Explorer supplements the on board map data with crowd collected locations from Foursquare or Google Places. It includes complete maps for the United States and Canada which contain millions of points of interest.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style='text-align: left; color: rgb(56, 45, 54); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style='text-align: left; color: rgb(56, 45, 54); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'><strong>***Available for iOS and Android<\/strong><\/div>\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=3761\" 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>New in our AT Library, and available for demonstration (or loan via one of our iDevices)&#8230; &nbsp; Nearby Explorer&nbsp;($79.99)&nbsp;a full featured GPS app designed for use&nbsp;by people who are blind. Instead of just providing directions, it describes the environment in ways comparable to reading signage or observing road characteristics.&nbsp;It uses onboard maps, so a data [&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":[3,18,14,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761"}],"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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}