I used a combination of the
BrailleNote PK with GPS and the Seeing Eye GPS as I navigated my way to the
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco this weekend. This was not
trivial task as 250,000 other music lovers descended on Golden Gate Park.
First, I had to figure out the
proximity of two places we could park and then walk. One was a mile North of the
park and the other 0.6 miles South of the park.
Once there, I wanted to know
where in the park we should head. We could hear the music before we even
started walking but there were 6 stages over about a mile of the park.
This is where the Foursquare
points in the Seeing Eye GPS app came in handy. The actual stage names were
marked like the Banjo Stage, the Porch Stage, etc. I could easily find out
which one was closest and head for it.
I did update the PK database
with the stages I visited so I’ll have that next year.
When it was time to leave, I
used the transit databases on the PK to find out where the nearest bus stop was
located. I chose Fulton Street and caught the bus into town to link up with the
Civic Center BART. The bus didn’t drop me very close to BART so I used the PK
to navigate the final walk to BART. The fun thing was that there was a gaggle
of young women on my bus also headed for Bart and they were all scrambling to
use their phones to find it. In the end, they just followed me, which made me a
little nervous in case I made a wrong turn.
I then took BART to Amtrak and then walked home from there, a lot of
navigating for one day.
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