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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Google Maps - GPS Navigation in Apps
Nov 4, 2017
Essential app, but still needs a little work
This is the most important app on my phone - especially for walking routes and using public transport. My only gripe is the fact it still lacks in terms of disability access - a general issue across the UK. So as a 'local guide' I've begun manually uploading the information.
While walking, I tend to have Google Maps reciting the directions to me through my ear phones. A lot of the time it stops and I keep wondering if the app has switched off. No doubt, it beats all competition in terms of navigation, but it needs to update quicker. And Google needs to stop telling me to 'add an image' to places. I'm not taking a picture of a shop like a weirdo.
While walking, I tend to have Google Maps reciting the directions to me through my ear phones. A lot of the time it stops and I keep wondering if the app has switched off. No doubt, it beats all competition in terms of navigation, but it needs to update quicker. And Google needs to stop telling me to 'add an image' to places. I'm not taking a picture of a shop like a weirdo.
David McK (3372 KP) rated Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, #3) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
The third entry in Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan books, in which she continues to flesh out the world she first created in ""Dead Witch Walking"", with the addition of several new characters and further hints about the motivations of some (one on particular) of the more enigmatic established characters.
It also helps to have read both "Dead Witch Walking" and "The Good, the Bad and the Undead" before starting this one, as it makes references to events in those books. As before, however, the novel also seeems to meander along quite a bit before getting to the point: it's almost as if Harrison is more interested in her characters than in her plot. While, for me, that can be annoying (get to the point already!), your mileage may vary ...
It also helps to have read both "Dead Witch Walking" and "The Good, the Bad and the Undead" before starting this one, as it makes references to events in those books. As before, however, the novel also seeems to meander along quite a bit before getting to the point: it's almost as if Harrison is more interested in her characters than in her plot. While, for me, that can be annoying (get to the point already!), your mileage may vary ...
Prague Walks
Book
This updated 2nd edition of this delightful walking guide whose unique sellingpoint is walking...
The Zombie Combat Field Guide: A Colouring and Activity Book for Fighting the Living Dead
Book
With The Zombie Combat Field Guide the Institute for Undead Combat Studies has created an essential...
Type n Walk
Productivity and Utilities
App
Type n Walk™ is the smarter, safer way to type while you're walking. As Seen On: - The New York...
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Walking Baltimore: An Insider's Guide to... in Books
Sep 7, 2017
A walking guidebook for central Baltimore
So this is a series of walking tours of Baltimore. I’ve only been on two of these walks so far, but I plan to take many more of them. It’s just been SO. HOT. And I’m not a person who likes walking much to begin with! But Pokemon Go makes walking a lot more fun. (Go Team Mystic!) That little bit of motivation of “well, I’ll walk to that Pokestop. Alright, there’s another Pokestop two blocks away, I can make it to that one. Maybe a little further to that next Pokestop. OOoo there’s a Tangela nearby!” It makes it just enough fun that I walk a lot more before I’ve even realized it..
Walking Baltimore gives me general guides for walks so I’m not just wandering Pokestop to Pokestop until I get lost! It has very detailed instructions – turn left at this corner, cross the street here so you can see this monument, then look up at the architecture in front of you – it’s really well done. My only wish is that there was an appendix that rated the walks in order of difficulty – each walk has a rating, from easy to moderate to strenuous – but there’s no way to see all of the difficulties side by side. With 33 walks all over Baltimore, with all levels of difficulty and lengths, there’s definitely something here for everyone, and the history and points of interest covered by the walks are fascinating.
The two that I’ve actually walked are half of #4, Inner Harbor Promenade, and #11, The Civil War Trail: Path of the War’s First Bloodshed. Both are mostly on the Inner Harbor, where my husband works, so I hitched a ride down with him, walked, and caught Pokemon until he got off work and we came home. (We live outside Baltimore City limits.) I’d been down in the area many times, but had no idea the Civil War’s first bloodshed occurred when a mob waylaid Union troops travelling through Baltimore! There are medallions laid in the sidewalks commemorating some of the events of the Civil War march, and most of those are Pokestops too.
Currently I have this book out from the library, but I think this is one I’ll be adding to my personal library soon. I want the walking guides! The author has also written 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Baltimore and Best in Tent Camping: Maryland. So he knows his stuff.
You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com
Walking Baltimore gives me general guides for walks so I’m not just wandering Pokestop to Pokestop until I get lost! It has very detailed instructions – turn left at this corner, cross the street here so you can see this monument, then look up at the architecture in front of you – it’s really well done. My only wish is that there was an appendix that rated the walks in order of difficulty – each walk has a rating, from easy to moderate to strenuous – but there’s no way to see all of the difficulties side by side. With 33 walks all over Baltimore, with all levels of difficulty and lengths, there’s definitely something here for everyone, and the history and points of interest covered by the walks are fascinating.
The two that I’ve actually walked are half of #4, Inner Harbor Promenade, and #11, The Civil War Trail: Path of the War’s First Bloodshed. Both are mostly on the Inner Harbor, where my husband works, so I hitched a ride down with him, walked, and caught Pokemon until he got off work and we came home. (We live outside Baltimore City limits.) I’d been down in the area many times, but had no idea the Civil War’s first bloodshed occurred when a mob waylaid Union troops travelling through Baltimore! There are medallions laid in the sidewalks commemorating some of the events of the Civil War march, and most of those are Pokestops too.
Currently I have this book out from the library, but I think this is one I’ll be adding to my personal library soon. I want the walking guides! The author has also written 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Baltimore and Best in Tent Camping: Maryland. So he knows his stuff.
You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com
Zurich Map and Walks, Full Version
Travel and Navigation
App
Lose Yourself Without Getting Lost. This handy application presents you several self-guided city...
GPSmyCity: Walks and Articles with Offline Maps
Travel and Navigation
App
Thousands of travel articles, offline city maps, and self-guided walking tours in 600+ cities. On...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2173 KP) rated The Fault Tree in Books
Mar 9, 2018
Blind mechanic Cadence Moran is walking home from work one night when she "witnesses" a murder. Trying to help the police only attracts the killer's attention. I found the story frustratingly slow for a thriller and the ending completely unbelievable.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-fault-tree-by-louise-ure.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-fault-tree-by-louise-ure.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.