Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Finding Your Voice - iGuidance 4 Reviewed
Posted by Doug Raeburn in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:00 AM
Figure 5: Points of Interest main menu.
Points of Interest (POIs) are well represented in iGuidance. The first set of screens display some broad categories for the POIs. For this example, I tapped on Recreation & Sports.
Figure 6: The Recreation and Sports submenu.
The chosen submenu is displayed. From here, I selected Sports Complex.
Figure 7: Options for POIs.
The next screen shows a number of options of how to display POIs and also allows you to change the state.
Figure 8: Entering the POI name.
Based on the selected options, a list of POIs is displayed. You can scroll through the list or filter as before. I chose Miller Park, home of the "always formidable" Milwaukee Brewers. Obviously, I'm joking… on the day that I'm writing this, they dropped out of contention for the playoffs the day before.
Figure 9: Details on the selected POI.
Finally, iGuidance displays the details for the chosen POI and allows you to navigate to it, add it to Favorites or display it on the map.
Other options for setting destinations include recent destinations and city center, which takes you to a city when you have no specific addresses or POIs to enter. Direct entry of coordinates is another option that makes iGuidance a useful tool for geo-caching.
Another common routing option, Contacts, is available in iGuidance. However, when I tried to use it, I got an error message about a bad or missing file. I'll try to research the error and report what I find.
