Hi Raul, I haven't set up anything but a mobile geo gps system, but here is my experience.
When you buy mobile geo, which is based on the sendero SDK, you are entitled to one regional map for free. You can buy maps for other regions if you want to travel extensively. To install the map, you download the map of your choice, unzip it to a folder which you can customize if you need to, and as long as the path to the map folder is correct in mobile geo, it will see your map or maps and use them. To upgrade your map, log in to my sendero. Download the new map for your region. Unzip it overtop of the old one and away you go. As long as the versions of sendero SDK on both the braille note and mobile geo packages are compatible, you can port your custom user data including saved roots and custom POI's back and fourth between mobile geo and braille note. I know this for a fact because it came up extensively in the 1.0 release of mobile geo for all the code factory user groups. The braille sense units I have access to aren't running sense nav, but I just assumed that was the way all products built on sendero worked. From what I'm reading here that's not the way. But three years is a hell of a long time to wait for updated maps, especially when the map data itself is available. On that basis alone, how can an authorizer recommend their client pay $1600 US for sense nav, when for $600 they can have mobile geo running current maps? Boy oh boy, That's a toughy. Erik Burggraaf Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be at the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and circulating for the rest of the day. http://www.erik-burggraaf.com 888-255-5194 On 2010-05-12, at 8:27 AM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Eric, this is not at all how it works. Even on a mainstream GPS system > you can't simply download new maps without paying for them if they are > available. In the case of Sendero maps, not only are the maps encrypted, > but you need the appropriate software or software-generated from the > right SDK to make it work. > > Many thanks. > > > > On 5/12/2010 7:23 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >> Wait a minute. >> >> Don't maps come directly from sendero? Presumably you can go and download >> the 2010 map any time you want. That's the way mobile geo works anyway, and >> I know that they are both sendero products, and I know that you can easily >> port map data, user POI's and saved routs to and from mobile geo and the >> braille note and I'm assuming the braille sense, though I don't remember for >> sure. >> >> But I really think you can just log on to the sendero website and get the >> most up to date map for your region. They come out once a year or so. >> >> Best, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> Join me Wednesday, May 26th at CNIB Tech Aids fair in Toronto. I'll be at >> the assistive computing booth from 2 to 4 in the afternoon and circulating >> for the rest of the day. >> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >> 888-255-5194 >> >> On 2010-05-11, at 6:32 PM, Keith Bucher wrote: >> >>> We've waited three years for new maps for Sense Nav, and we're still >>> waiting. Maybe this will be tip number 2. >>> >>> >>> Keith >>> >>> If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: >>> >>> http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv >>> >> >> If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: >> >> http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > GW Micro Technical Support And Product Specialist > Voice 260-489-3671, Fax 260-489-2608 > Web http://www.gwmicro.com > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
