[gps-talkusers] Re: Big money for maps

Hello, Jason,
Yep, you hit the head right on the nail!  From what I have seen, your 
Austrailian medical and military equipment is not as compatible with Yank 
stuff as people would like you to think.  Right now, I am working on an 
oxygen tank compatability problem between Philippine and Japanese medical 
equipment.  Talk about red tape!  The tank makers are screaming about safety 
hazards, the airlines are passing out impossible-to-read fifth generation 
fax copies of who knows what, and me right in the middle, just trying to get 
the job done.  Of course, equipment needs to be moved between the two 
countries, and that's where the real problems are.  The customs inspectors 
could care less.  I finally had it up to the gills listening to people rant 
and rave at me, and just walked out of the meeting, saying that everything 
was canceled.  It was canceled as far as they were concerned.  I took the 
equipment, which was not very large at all, and mailed it through the local 
post office.  When they are finished with it there, I will receive in the 
mail my original tank and valve and regulator assemblies along with samples 
of their units so I can measure and compare.  I shipped my tank empty and I 
told the Philippine hospital to ship theirs empty, too.  No problem at all.

Yes, I guess there is no honor among thieves, and that includes the oil 
companies.  The big problem is that they are bigger than the government, so 
can dictate their own policy, including "windfall" profits, which means just 
plain and simple robbing the public.  The same thing with insurance 
companies.  They lie, they steal, they cheat, but everyone is afraid of 
them.

I do not live in the US, but I go there for about three months every year to 
run around the US and visit friends.  My second home is in Oregon, just 
south of Portland.  My nephew who lives there tells me that it is cold, but 
nothing exceptional.  But, even so, oil prices have increased about twenty 
percent.  He tells me the whole economy is becoming based on greed.  Perhaps 
you and I are in the wrong business.

Changing careers

Dick Myers

From: "jason smith" <thisisjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Big money for maps
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:06:17 +1100

Hi there Richard,
yeah I had already thought that. Make something in an exclussive format and
you have got a captive audiance. Mike said something about thir being two
companies which generate the maps, but it is getting the right filters or
something. Funny how this incompatibility only seems to effect those of us
with a sight problem e.g I think there would be hell to pay if our
Australian defence or medical equipment wasn't in a compatible format with
other equipment.
all the best from down under
Jason
P.S I hope you guys in the U.S are out of the big winter freeze you were
having. We're being told it's due to your increased oil demand during winter
why we have such high petrol prices down hear. Isn't it funny how the oil
companies always shift the blame from their greed- excuse my sarcasm.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Myers" <dkmyers28@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Big money for maps


 > Producing those maps with proprietary and exclusive formats was not an
 > accident, believe me.  You buy the software to read those maps, then you
 > buy
 > the maps, too.  No other maps will fit, no other software will do the 
job.
 > They got you!!
 >
 > From: "jason smith" <thisisjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Considerations for new GPS purchase
 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:14:55 +1100
 >
 > Hi Deon,
 > unfortunately those of us hear in Australia are not able to make use of
 > either the Braille note or Trekker as Australian maps are not currently
 > compatible with either unit. Who ever came up with the idea to produce
 > Australian maps in a different format must have been spending too much
 > time
 > in the Ausie sun. Freedom Scientific's Pac mate does have Australian 
maps,
 > but when and if they do become available is still unknown-it has almost
 > been
 > a year since they launched their GPS system and we are still waiting. I
 > assume New Zealand might be in the same situation regarding maps. If you
 > do
 > come across any, please let the rest of us know too.
 > thanks Jason

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