Calculate route without Internet (Offline routing)
?
Routing providers
?
Avoid traffic
?
Traffic Provider
?
Navigating
Navigate
no
Find location
no
Find nearby POIs
yes
Navigate to point
yes
Navigation with voice / Voice guidance
yes (Screenreader needed)
Keep on road
no
Lane guidance
?
Works without GPS
yes
Navigate along predefined route
?
Tracking
Make track
yes
Customizable log interval
no
Track formats
?
Geotagging
no
Fast POI buttons
yes
Upload GPX to OSM
no
Monitoring
Monitoring
no
Show current track
no
Open existing track
no
Altitude diagram
no
Show POD value
yes
Satellite view
yes (number)
Show live NMEA data
no
Show speed
yes
Send current position
yes?
Editing
?
Rendering
?
Accessibility
Accessibility support
blind
Complete non graphics text output
yes
Braille interface
?
Exploration modus
yes
Public Transport mode
?
Danger Warnings
no
Screenreader
Nuance TALKS;Mobile Speak
Screenreader languages
?
Loadstone GPS is a free non-graphics satellite navigation software originally developed for the discontinued-since-2014 Symbian Mobile/phones using the Series60 platform, and now for iOS. Although Loadstone-GPS is a useful navigational tool for everyone, it is particularly useful for blind and visually impaired people using screen readers (e.g. Nuance Talks).
There is an online converstion tool [1] and an offline conversion tool to transfer .osm files up to 8 MB
to the loadstone import format (.txt).
Loadstone works with nodes only and imports POIs and crossing nodes from OSM.
With Loadstone-GPS blind persons are enabled to contribute to OSM by collecting tracks. See OSM for the blind.
