All, this has drifted way off track and should have stopped many
messages ago. I really hate having to jump in here but I've been
getting well-justified private complaints.
Can we *please* try to keep things on topic???
John
J. Forster said the following on 01/01/2011 12:14 AM:
HNY,
Happy New Year every one.
It is not the GPS, it is clearly the database, and short of a detailed
survey of every address there will be variations. As Google enhances it's
database I am sure so will the Navigator sellers. We have come a long way and
we
are getting spoiled.
Bert Kehren Miami
Dick wrote:
Most of the destinations I program in, by address, work well.
Most of the time, I get led right to the door. So why can't
it figure out where I live ??
As others have pointed out, roads have generally been surveyed pretty
accurately but houses have not, except in heavily
Thank you, Horst, for your voice of calm reason.
The point that I raised (or tried to...) was that no data base of this size
is capable of being error free, whether the unit cost of production is ten
billion dollars or ten cents. Random error can be reduced but it can never
be eliminated.
You are correct, John, and I apologize for my verbosity on the topic.
Others may have the last word, if desired, I'm done.
Bill
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, John Ackermann N8UR j...@febo.com wrote:
All, this has drifted way off track and should have stopped many messages
ago. I really
My 0.02
These SAME maps are being used in E911 and other GIS systems so the poor
workmanship which is so obvious here has the potential to put lives in danger.
Most of the emergency response trucks up here have GPS systems with these maps
onboard - not a problem for locals but if we needed
A GPS is a precision device.
A Navigator is a consumer device.
To confuse the two is to fail to understand either.
ian
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A GPS is a precision device.
A Navigator is a consumer device.
To confuse the two is to fail to understand either.
A navigator IS a GPS. Surveying GPSs may use carrier phase tracking or
whatever to get about 2mm accuracy. Just because it is optimized for navigation
instead
of
Hi,
first, a happy and hopefully healthy New Year to all of you.
I think, some of you are going slightly overboard, in what you expect a
$150 Dollar car navigator should do,
I also don't believe some of you you realise what exactly it was
designed to do.
It is not a device to accurately
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them
alittle slack
Hi,
first, a happy and hopefully healthy New Year to all of you.
I think, some of you are going slightly overboard, in what you expect a
$150
HNY,
I disagree. The reason a high performance GPS costs 100K or more is that
the engineering cost is ammortized over a few hundred units.
Say the thing cost $10M to develop and you make 1000, that's $10,000 NRE
per unit.
However, if you have a successful commercial unit and sell 1,000,000 the
@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them
alittle slack
Hi,
first, a happy and hopefully healthy New Year to all of you.
I think, some of you are going slightly overboard, in what you expect a
$150 Dollar car navigator should do,
I also don't believe some
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