[gps-talkusers] Re: HARD TO FIND PLACES

Hi Steven,

 

I think your comment about the relative cost of maps of Eire and the US is
indisputable.  The word subsidy comes to mind.  Also we don?t need post code
search removed, we need a field that will accept the full code not just 5
characters.

 

I posted the following earlier in the hope that someone from the vendors
would reply but nothing yet.  Anyway, I?ll try again.

 

With the problems of lack of map data and out of date data for the UK and
several other countries, which obviously shows a considerable contrast to
that of users' experiences in the US as witnessed on this list, is there not
a case for reflecting this in a two-level price structure based on actual
usability.  At the moment it does seem that a synic could interpret the
situation as one part of the user base subsidizing the other.  What do
people think?

 

Thank you.

 

Graham Woodward.

 

 

Original message

 

From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: [gps-talkusers] HARD TO FIND PLACES 

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:55:42 +0100

 

Carol 

I have just seen your, and Richard's, emails. 

 

The simplest way I have found to locate places that do not appear on the map
- and there are hundreds of them, even quite large places - is to use a POI
search. 

 

Press f-chord set the search start and end distances to 80 and 100. miles.
Choose Bus and Rail for the POI category and West for the search string.
This should give you a list which will include Weston-super-Mare. It will
also include some places names that do not seem to correspond with the
search criteria. You can then set this point as your destination. 

 

The boundary between the south and Wales & Midlands and the south and East
England both seem a little odd. It seems to be a line that crosses the top
of London and then somewhere west of Reading the line turns sharply left to
the south and then again turns west. Wiltshire is split between the two
maps, I think the whole of Avon is in the midlands and part of Somerset.
This is probably to ensure that the whole of Wales can be included on one
map - otherwise the extreme South West of Wales around Pembrook would be on
the south map isolated from the rest of Wales. 

 

Incidentally, can someone tell me why I need to pay a further £50 for the
map of Eire. It is usually included in a map book of the British Isles.
Given that the data appears to be as grotty for the whole of Ireland as it
is for the UK the map should come as part of the standard package for UK
residents. This is particularly off putting as I would only have to pay the
same price for the map of the whole of the USA (including Canada).

 

We certainly seem to be getting a second rate service.

 

Steve

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