Well Richard. maybe we should all go back to the horse and buggy days.
The horse even found its way bak when the driver had a skin full and
was not to sure where he lived.
Regards, Horst (e)
On 1/01/2011 16:08, Richard W. Solomon wrote:
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
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