Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
>> Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using >> triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if >> so? I have read that the map makers (now owned by GPS companies) are trying to restrict how their maps are used with cell phones. I think they know that a good cell phone app could kill their hardware business. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
It works great. Within three meters a lot of the time. - Original Message - From: "mike" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X] Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if so? Mike * ** 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/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
> I recently say an car integrated GPS that had a display that looked to be > about 8 x 10 inches in size. This looks much more useful than the tiny > screens I've seen on the add-on models. While not denying the appeal of those large, built-in screens, I've found that by putting the GPS windshield mount to the upper-left of the steering wheel (as opposed to the right-center, where I initially put it), the screen ends up about 6-8 inches from my eyes and ears, thereby giving me a good view, and within easy reach for touch-screen functions. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
> I make it a point to ask cab drivers about their GPS systems on trips > in Northern Virginia. I get uniformly good reports. However, on a recent > trip when we got within about 100 yards of my destination the GPS > ordered a sharp right turn that would have taken us far afield. The driver did > not seem perturbed. Strange. (Maybe these drivers are working for > Belkin?) I will say about the system in the Ford is that it does pinpoint locations very accurately. It's routing algorithm was designed by chimp in a syphilitic delirium, but you always know where you are; just not how to get there. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
>It's breathtaking how god awful this GPS system is. I'm glad I bought the >car used and wasn't stupid enough to spend the $2,000 the Nav option cost >new. I make it a point to ask cab drivers about their GPS systems on trips in Northern Virginia. I get uniformly good reports. However, on a recent trip when we got within about 100 yards of my destination the GPS ordered a sharp right turn that would have taken us far afield. The driver did not seem perturbed. Strange. (Maybe these drivers are working for Belkin?) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
>I have been told that most of the nav systems in cars, pale in >comparison with the ones you can buy off the shelf. I recently say an car integrated GPS that had a display that looked to be about 8 x 10 inches in size. This looks much more useful than the tiny screens I've seen on the add-on models. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, mike wrote: Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if so? I'm using that on my work-issued Blackberry. It's ok. It's better where the cell towers are closer together. The accurracy is anywhere from within a mile to with a hundred yards or so (depending on closeness of cell towers). And, of course, if cell towers are too far (or out of range completely), then it won't show your position at all. The maps seem pretty slow to download, but I have an old Blackberry, so maybe newer ones work better. -- Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/vi...@steeds.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if so? Mike * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
I have been told that most of the nav systems in cars, pale in comparison with the ones you can buy off the shelf. A lot of this depends on who they are buying their nav systems from. I know some needs maps loaded from a DVD to make them work. Stewart At 04:29 PM 1/20/2009, you wrote: This sounds still better than the Nav system that came in my wife's 2007 Ford. I believe these are made by Pioneer. We were going to visit family over the holidays and my cousins had moved to a new house that we hadn't been to before. This is just outside of Harrisburg, PA. I sometimes turn on GPS systems before I need them, just to see how they are at basic navigation. I programmed in the address, since I didn't know exactly where they were and once we were on 83N, off of 695, I turned it on and it immediately told me to get off at the next exit, which is nuts. I don't want to take MD and PA back roads for the next 100 miles. I canceled the navigation and tried it again a bit later and it still was bugging me to exit, which I knew was wrong. Finally, as we were getting near, I took one of the exits. It was a nice drive through a quaint, small PA town, but after about 4 miles, I crossed the exit off 83N I really wanted. This was the same system I tried to program to take the Tappan-Zee bridge coming back from NE, and gave up after about a half-hour of fighting with it (in the driveway of course). It's breathtaking how god awful this GPS system is. I'm glad I bought the car used and wasn't stupid enough to spend the $2,000 the Nav option cost new. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows & Active X]
> >Right now if I punch in the street address for my church it sends me > >1.5 miles down the road. Reason for this is that 6 years ago they > >redid all the street addresses for E911. Before they were a > >mess. If I put in the old street address it finds it dead on. Just > >this past summer I saw a van from TeleAtlas in the area doing some > >remapping. So I expect some change in the next couple of years. This sounds still better than the Nav system that came in my wife's 2007 Ford. I believe these are made by Pioneer. We were going to visit family over the holidays and my cousins had moved to a new house that we hadn't been to before. This is just outside of Harrisburg, PA. I sometimes turn on GPS systems before I need them, just to see how they are at basic navigation. I programmed in the address, since I didn't know exactly where they were and once we were on 83N, off of 695, I turned it on and it immediately told me to get off at the next exit, which is nuts. I don't want to take MD and PA back roads for the next 100 miles. I canceled the navigation and tried it again a bit later and it still was bugging me to exit, which I knew was wrong. Finally, as we were getting near, I took one of the exits. It was a nice drive through a quaint, small PA town, but after about 4 miles, I crossed the exit off 83N I really wanted. This was the same system I tried to program to take the Tappan-Zee bridge coming back from NE, and gave up after about a half-hour of fighting with it (in the driveway of course). It's breathtaking how god awful this GPS system is. I'm glad I bought the car used and wasn't stupid enough to spend the $2,000 the Nav option cost new. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
