Hi Tina, I know others have had some serious problems with map accuracy and also in route creation. I have had a few of these, but really nothing serious. But, I live in northern California near San Francisco, and due to the popularity of gps among sighted people too, it may be that this area is a bit better than some. Anyway, I really like the gps a lot and find it extremely useful in a lot of situations. For various reasons, we have to use a lot of paratransit around here and if you're at all familiar with that, you know you are apt to be driven all over the area by a driver who really doesn't know where he/she is going. Having the gps really makes all this a bit more tolerable since you can keep track of where you are and can be far more aware of your environment.
It's certainly not perfect at all, but it does work and is a great improvement over gps v1. Based on the experiences being learned with this version, I'm looking forward to gps v3 and also to hopefully improved maps. Don On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:25:44 -0700, Tina Birnenbaum wrote: how do you like the gps don? i think i might getit first and the internet shtuff later i just hope my area will be accurate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [Braillenote] GPS CALLING OUT STREET NAMES AUTOMATICALLY > Try m x for automatic next intersection. I think that will do what you want. > M toggels the automatic speaking of items on/off and x is for nearest intersection. > Don > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:45:28 -0600, Kathleen Lueders wrote: > Hi GPS Users, > I am running the upgrade of GPS with KeySoft 5 on my BrailleNote. > I notice that I can make the BN automatically announce way points, but I do > not know how to get it to automatically announce street names. In the old > days, when I recorded my own routes, I entered a street name as a way > point, and then when I traveled that route, my street names were > automatically called out. Now, with GPS 2, the street names are already > way points according to the map, but I cannot hear them automatically > announced. I can hear points of interest announced automatically. > What am I doing wrong? > Kathleen G. Lueders > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
