Waymap vs Soundscape Community

Find your way anywhere, and help others do the same. Waymap is a navigation app for everyday journeys. Plan your route, get walking directions, and move through the city with confidence. Then, when you step inside a Waymap-enabled venue, navigation keeps going. Through buildings, underground spaces, and back outside again. No GPS dead zones. No signal dropouts. No gaps in guidance. What makes Waymap different is the impact of every journey. Each trip helps improve routing, refine accuracy, and strengthen guidance for the next person; including people who are blind, visually impaired, or navigating with other accessibility needs. You are not just finding your way. You are helping make your city more accessible for everyone. NAVIGATE EVERYWHERE · City-wide journey planning for the places you go every day · Seamless navigation across outdoor, indoor, and underground spaces · Step-by-step guidance throughout your journey · Works where GPS and signal often fail BUILT WITH ACCESSIBILITY IN MIND · Designed to support blind and visually impaired travellers · Step-free journey support, including accessible routes where available · Clear guidance for independent travel · Compatible with VoiceOver and TalkBack YOUR JOURNEYS HELP IMPROVE ACCESS · Waymap adapts to how you move for more accurate guidance over time · Every journey helps improve our map and directions for future users · Supporting a future where more people can travel independently PRIVACY BY DESIGN · No sign-up required · Your data stays yours, with no location data shared to external servers Navigation is processed on device WHERE CAN I USE WAYMAP? Waymap supports everyday navigation across several cities and continues into participating venues where Waymap-enabled mapping is available. These may include stations, hospitals, shopping centres, universities, stadiums, and other complex public spaces. If your city is unavailable, let us know you want Waymap where you are, we’re always adding more cities and venues to our map! IT’S FREE TO USE Waymap is free to download and use. Venues license Waymap to offer navigation to their visitors, so there is no cost to use the app. Join a growing community of people navigating the world, and helping make it more accessible with every step.

Welcome to Soundscape Community. We are a diverse consortium of organizations and individuals committed to improving access and inclusion for everyone, in partnership with a global community of users and open source developers. We are delighted to make Soundscape Community available for people around the world. With the Soundscape Community app, you can immerse yourself in your surroundings and navigate effortlessly with its innovative spatial audio. The app calls out points of interest, individual markers that you have created or which have been shared with you, businesses and much more information by using audio placed in the environment around you so that you experience it as 3D sound when you walk or pass through different spaces and places. Key features of Soundscape: Audio cues in 3D space that sound like they are coming from the direction of points of interests, parks, roads and other features in your surroundings. Track a specific point using an Audio Beacon on it to hear updates about where it is relative to you. Soundscape Street Preview helps you build a picture of a place virtually. You can "walk" down streets and roads and hear what is around each location as you explore. Buttons on the Home Screen can be used to explore further about what's around you, whether in the real world or in Street Preview. To get the most out of the experience you will need a pair of stereo headphones that you feel comfortable wearing outdoors. For example, bone conduction headsets, Apple AirPods and in-ear open headphones have proven to work well. Soundscape is designed to live in the background and provide you with effortless ambient awareness; feel free to use it in conjunction with other apps such as podcasts, audio books, email and even GPS navigation. Soundscape Community has been successfully used for Trail Orienteering by the Invictus Games Foundation; and is actively supporting customers around the world to make their spaces accessible and engaging for everyone. We hope you enjoy the experience. We believe that this kind of technology offers a new way to relate to the environment around you and we can’t wait to hear what you make of it. If at any time you have any questions about Soundscape, please refer to the Help & Tutorials section available on the main menu or visit our website and access blogs and videos.