I add just one more comment ... 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 ??
Just sloppy work, pure and simple. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -----Original Message----- >From: Horst Schmidt <[email protected]> >Sent: Dec 31, 2010 10:04 PM >To: [email protected] >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 of you you realise what exactly it was >designed to do. > >It is not a device to accurately shoot a missile trough somebodies >toilet window and hit a specified turd in the bowl. > >It is designed to get you relatively easy and close to a specified >designation. preferably when used in a motor car > >This it does perfectly well. It may be a few meters out from an exact >house number, but it got you there without you having >to look at the map, (or worse get your spouse to read the map and >navigate you). > >It improves the road safety, especially at night time, when you often >don't see the street names and have to slow down to a crawl >with a lot of cars bunched up behind you. > >The mind boggles if some of you think because the GPS is not 100% >accurate, The Fire brigade gets either lost, or tries to extinguish the > house next door to the burning one, just because the GPS is 30m out. > What you're actually are saying is: The Fire brigade is full of idiots. > >To sell an item for 150 or so Bucks, on can not reasonably expect it >to be as perfect than another item which sells for 100 grand or more >and nobody > except a few government institutions can afford it. > >Not every instrument is mad by Agilent for a cost which is prohibitive >to the normal punter. > >Just get back down to earth, a few years ago you had to learn how to >read a map, or follow the often useless instructions somebody else gave you. > >Now for hardly any money, you get to your destination with least amount >of effort and a lot saver than before. > >Regards, Horst > > > > > > > > >> gonzo- >> "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 location accuracy and gets about 3m accuracy doesn't mean that a navigator >> isn't a GPS. >> >> Note that map accuracy has nothing to do with GPS receiver accuracy. Also >> some mapping data has built in errors or incorrect POIs to identify the data >> in >> case it is copied. For instance, one company's street mapping software I >> owned >> had, in the small town I live in, a POI that said: "***** Institute Of >> Technology" >> >> even though there has never been a school there and it was a actually closed >> gas >> >> station. >> >> -Arthur >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
