ViA – The Audible Route Planning app for Runners

My review of the ViA app - audible Sat Nav for runners @theviaapp

Every once in a while I wake with hangover. If that isn’t punishment enough for a night of excesses I tend to also discover that the car isn’t in the drive as it was responsibly abandoned the night before and I’m now faced with collecting it. This has given rise to a whole new category of run in my running log – the “hangover car collect” run. On my last hangover run I had a new app to ease my navigational burden – ViA by Firebird Creative. The ViA iPhone app is billed as the Sat Nav system for runners and is not to be confused with the multitude of GPS tracking systems in the image of Endomondo or mapmyrun. ViA is a unique, step by step, navigation system with audible instructions. I’m afraid to say that I am actually quite familiar with my hangover route but I was happy enough to hand over responsibility to the nice chap in the VIA app. He confused me a bit when I left t...

Full article: http://www.warriorwomen.co.uk/2012/09/19/via-the-audible-...