Where do you get your mapping and location information?
MAPPING:
- OpenStreetMap for intersection
- Apple maps for street info (with house numbers)
LOCATION
- Foursquare for places
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1. BlindSquare Beacon Positioning System (BPS) and Quick Response-code System (QRS) 5
- 1.1 Do you have any Tips and Tricks?
- 1.2 I can connect to public Wi-Fi networks but seem unable to receive email or BlindSquare data from the cloud. What's up?
- 1.3 Can I use an iPod Touch or an iPad without a GPS sensor?
- 1.4 How do I stream a MP3/M4a file stored in DropBox?
- 1.5 BlindSquare QR's. What happens when you don't have WIFI/Cellular-data when scanning a QR?
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2. Overview 21
- 2.1 Exploring Your Environment
- 2.2 Walking with BlindSquare
- 2.3 Filtering Information
- 2.4 The Shake Gesture
- 2.5 Searching for places
- 2.6 Search
- 2.7 Category Search
- 2.8 Using BlindSquare in vehicles
- 2.9 Marking Places
- 2.10 Saving your current location
- 2.11 Saving a Distant Location
- 2.12 Sharing Places
- 2.13 Sharing your current location
- 2.14 Share any location
- 2.15 Importing and Exporting Points of Interest
- 2.16 Importing Points of Interest
- 2.17 Exporting Points of Interest
- 2.18 Navigation to a destination
- 2.19 The Audio Menu
- 2.20 Location
- 2.21 Sleep Mode
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3. iBeacon Hardware 6
- 3.1 How often do I need to replace batteries?
- 3.2 How do I replace a battery in a Kontakt.io beacon?
- 3.3 My i-Beacon is open, how can I close it?
- 3.4 What is the cost of a replacement battery for a Kontakt.io beacon?
- 3.5 Are there options for powered beacons?
- 3.6 Can you tell me more about Security of the beacons?
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4. iBeacon? What's an iBeacon? 4
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5. iBeacon Software 24
- 5.1 Machine Translation: What are the language codes used for GoogleTranslate?
- 5.2 Are there general considerations that I should ponder from the beginning?
- 5.3 How do I describe turns?
- 5.4 How does BlindSquare manage heading ranges that nest, one within the other?
- 5.5 How does BlindSquare manage heading ranges that overlap?
- 5.6 How to you manage the data broadcast (advertised) by an iBeacon?
- 5.7 What are your beacon installation recommendations?
- 5.8 What are the sounds associated with the various TYPES?
- 5.9 How to you manage BlindSquare's response when it encounters an iBeacon?
- 5.10 Can I use a tablet to edit the g.sheet?
- 5.11 What is a Google Sheet?
- 5.12 Can you explain the Google Sheet used to configure iBeacons?
- 5.13 If i make a change in the BPS data, and publish - is there anything else I need to?
- 5.14 As an installer, is there a way that I can test a beacon from my location, using a client's g.sheet, when I am outside their geofence?
- 5.15 How can I improve the phrasing of the voices? (Text to Speech)
- 5.16 What Transit apps are supported by BlindSquare?
- 5.17 What Languages are supported with BPS or QR Messaging?
- 5.18 Are there phrases that are automatically used by BlindSquare preceding messages?
- 5.19 Where do you get your mapping and location information?
- 5.20 Can I present messages in other languages "automatically"?
- 5.21 I am using BlindSquare QR to repurpose a previously published standard QR-Code <not generated by BlindSquare> and it's not working. Tips?
- 5.22 Do you have suggestions for creating messages?
- 5.23 Is the compass on the smartphone "smart enough" when traveling indoors?
- 5.24 How can I skip forward, or back, through a long message?
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6. QR Codes - their use supporting indoor navigation with a BPS environment 5
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7. Related Services 4
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