[time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them alittle slack

[Richard W. Solomon]

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 <horsts at iinet.net.au>
>Sent: Dec 31, 2010 10:04 PM
>To: time-nuts at 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 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
>
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>> 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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