I've got a Garmin and have generally been amused, but somewhat disappointed by what it thinks it knows and doesn't know.
It knows where Home Depots are located, just not the one that's 15 minutes from me (that's been in the same location since the late 1980s). It suggests I drive 2+ hours to find one. The same goes for Trader Joes and a slew of other places. A local hospital moved 2 years ago and last year's map didn't know about it. It doesn't even know where the Costco that it came from is located. On the amusing side, it knows the abbreviation "SC" stands for South Carolina. I programmed in a location for a business with "SC" in the name. It tells me, "now arriving at South Carolina...." It knows how to read street names for the most part. Expressway is...well Expressway, but Expwy is "ex-pweee" Also, it is rather amusing that if you program it for "shortest distance", the directions will take you off the freeway, onto the exit ramp and then back onto the freeway again. Apparently that's .0001 miles shorter than just staying on the freeway. I called Garmin and the kind person I spoke with (after waiting on hold for 30+ minutes) didn't understand how it doesn't know the various locations. That was with updated maps too. I suspect businesses have to pay to have their locations identified? Larry -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:computerguy...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of Tom Piwowar Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:06 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Windows & Active X >Actually, I think Tom was saying that Garmin forcing you to use Active >X is a Bad Thing. And I'd have to ag. . . agre. . . Ohh, I just can't >say it. Forcing anyone to use IE is certainly a crime. I went one step further to say that any company who can't figure out how to do a job using open standards is advertising that they have very poor engineering skills. Hence I would expect to be otherwise not too hot. I believe subsequent posts cleared Garmin of this offense, but raised a new one. To register you had to be running an administrative account. That is not quite as bad as requiring IE, but certainly does not establish their engineering chops. So instead of 0 stars they get 2 stars. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
