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Blue Badge Parking
iOS Universel / Navigation
•This app only grows if more locations are added by users, it’s called “Crowd-Sourcing” so if you find there are no parking spaces shown in your local town for example, click link in Setting, go to website & add them.
Description:-
This app uses a database of parking locations by kind permission of Dan Gibson at “BlueBadgeParking.com”. After the initial launch of app, if you don’t have cellular connection it uses the last version saved. When launched, app looks for nearest spaces to your location based on Search Radius selected in ‘Settings’ (default 3 miles / 4.5kms).
Map tab:-
The circular ‘Zoom’ button toggles between 3 views, Zoom just nearby locations or your location & all nearby locations & if a pin is selected then it zooms right into just that location. The pin flag has a blue ‘i’ & if you touch that a menu appears with Navigation Options.
Searching other Towns:-
In the main ‘Map’ tab, touch the search box at the top & you can enter not only a Town or City but also Post or Zip codes or What3Words.
List tab:-
The list which is sorted so nearest to you or if you used the search box then nearest that location is at the top. Parking locations are within same Search Radius as Map. If your location has changed then ‘pull’ list down ‘to refresh’ distances & locations. If you would like to view a particular location just touch description & ‘Map’ tab opens with that location shown.
Notify tab (The following features will be added soon):-
This tab lets you Add, Edit, Move or Delete locations. The Mark & Favourite options do fully work allowing users to Mark a location temporally & the Favourite is a more permanent option & remembered even after a Full Database downloaded.
Settings tab:-
This tab lets you change the search radius, distance units, enable / disable Beep Sounds, Delete ‘Marked’ which has 4 options, Enable Shake feature, Disable Screen Auto Lock, Larger Display changes size of text & some controls, Zoom with Satellite view, display all Favourite in List Tab, Use Map Pan & Shake in Map Tab which has 3 options. These settings are remembered when the app is closed, ready for next time.
Short Cuts:-
There are 3 functions that use the ‘Shake’ facility which means when you shake your iDevice firmly, it will trigger one of these:-
1/ In Map tab
If there are parking location pins visible, it zooms into nearest. You can then touch zoom button which temporally switches to Satellite view.
2/ Notify tab
After shaking iDevice a Menu appears with 3 options.
A/ ‘Add’, ‘Quick’ or ‘Favourite’ location which at present work but you can’t update the database directly.
B/ “’Mark’ Location on Map” this drops a pin on the map where you are standing, so if you are stood by your vehicle it helps you find it again later. The flag includes road name, current Date & Time to act as a reminder if parking time is limited. You can add as many of these as you want & ‘Discard’ them individually or if enabled in Settings, app will automatically remove them after the chosen delay.
There are 2 compass features in Map:-
1/ Touch & Hold the map & a compass arrow appears, rotate iDevice until arrow with words ‘Device North’ is pointing to the top of the screen. Now pins or Points of Interest are in the direction relative to your screen.
2/ Touch any pin & choose ‘Location Direction’ & a blue arrow appears pointing towards the pin & the Line of Sight distance is shown inside the arrow. These are constantly updated as you walk about, to dismiss arrow, just touch screen.
Show Walking Route:-
From the Map “Navigation Options” select ‘Show Walking Route’ & app calculates best walking route to the selected pin & displays the actual distance. This feature requires a network connection.
Compatibility:-
Blue Badge Parking is Universal, ideally with cellular connection (not essential as the last downloaded data is retained), compatible with all iPad’s with GPS, all iPhone 4 to latest iPhone.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
•Major update with these new features:-
•1/ Added to Settings the option to ‘Remember last open Tab’ which some users who mainly use one particular tab may find very useful (it’s off by default).
•2/ Changed the cell colour method in the List tab to make the various location types much clearer.
•3/ Settings tab reordered the switches into 2 groups to make it easier to see the various functions.
•4/ Added the badge feature to List tab to display number of locations in the list.
•5/ Now spell checks the What3Words phrase entered into the search box. If it finds an error the new button returns to Map tab and if you click on each word in turn, the correct spelling suggestion appears.
•Plus Minor update with 2 new features.
•A/ Option to automatically create an email with details of all your ‘Favourites’ locations you have made, which you can save or share.
•B/ Added ‘Delete All’ in Settings tab “Delete ‘Marked’ in days”
•Found bug that sometimes crashed app on launch and hopefully cured that plus squashed a few other minor bugs.
•This app only grows if more locations are added by users, it’s called “Crowd-Sourcing” so if you find a missing parking space in your local town for example, in Setting tab click the link to website & add them directly. You can also easily email me the location by using Notify tab and adding the location by first selecting the number of spaces, then ‘shaking’ device to access the Add ‘Quick’ location menu. Then go the List tab and long press the location cell you just added and an email fully completed with all the information needed will appear ready for you to send to support. I will then add your location to the database.