Hi,
This is the thing that is making me concerned. I am using the
Hollux 1200, and I have 10 satellites with 12-ft accuracy and I'm
still about a block or more off.
Can you do anything with latitude/longitude or settings in the range
or anything like that?
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:brettsta21@xxxxxxxxx>Brett
To: <mailto:gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?
Hi Amy,
Are you using the internal GPS on the device, or an external one.
External ones should give greater accuracy. Some of the internal
ones are quite good, but it will depend on the phone and at walking
speeds they often aren't as accurate. If your not sure of your
results, press 0 to check on the amount of satellites Mgeo is
tracking and it will also give you an estimated accuracy value.
Hope this helps,
Brett.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:amym2@xxxxxxx>Amy Murillo-Hicks
To: <mailto:gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:12 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?
Hello,
I've just started with my trial version of Mobile Geo with the to
mobile dash, and have a couple of questions.
Are any of you using the dash, and are you able to use both the
external Bluetooth GPS and Bluetooth headset together?
More importantly, I live on a residential street with houses
spaced a decent distance apart. As I stand out in front of my
house, the GPS has me plotted at an address about a block and a
half away from my actual address. When using a route home, I was
told, during a pedestrian route to turn on a street a block my
actual block, and at another time, during a vehicle route, I was
told to turn right across a busy intersecting street rather than
left on to the correct street. Both times the same address was
entered as the destination. Is there a way of adjusting settings
to fix this, or does this sound like a satellite or mapping problem?
Thanks for any advice,
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:renee@xxxxxxxx>Renee M Zelickson
To: <mailto:gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:41 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?
I am hoping Sendero will come out with a seperate divice for
gps. I'd rather not use a cell phone with it, because I feel it
would use to much battery power and I would rather have my phone of
r phone calls .
Renee
On May 25, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Brett wrote:
Hi,
In all cases, an external GPS receiver will do better than an
internal one, although some internal ones are pretty good. How well
MGeo runs on a smartphone or pocket PC will depend on the amount of
ram and rom the device has and the processor speed. I'm not sure
what the specs of the Ipaq were, so don't know if that was the
issue. I also can't give a personal comparison of MGeo compared to
a Braille note, as I have never tried GPS on a Braille note.
Cheers,
Brett.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Pettke"
<<mailto:cpettke169307@xxxxxxxxxxx>cpettke169307@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <<mailto:gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:19 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?
I tried a trial version of Mobile Geo on my HP IPaq and found that I was
less than impressed. My IPaq has a built-in GPS receiver and I have heard
that if you pair the pocket PC (which is what the IPaq is) with an external
receiver you get a better signal. I also found that the response to commands
varied quite a bit. Sometimes it was very quick and other times Mobile Geo
was slow to respond. I do use the Sendero's BrailleNote GPS and like it much
more than I did Mobile Geo. Although it is not as portable as carrying
around a smart phone or pocket PC. If you have access to both platforms (a
BrailleNote and a Windows Mobile device) and don't mind carrying around the
BrailleNote, I'd choose Sendero GPS for the BrailleNote. I also suspect that
Mobile Geo's responsiveness is highly platform dependent. I believe most of
my issues were because of the IPaq and not Mobile Geo.
-----Original Message-----
From:
<mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Brinkman
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 1:36 PM
To: <mailto:gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] How well does mobile geo work?
I'm thinking about getting either mobile geo or brailleNote GPS to replace
my SenseNav, since GW have dropped the ball in regards to updates. I'm
leaning towards mobile geo due to the portability and small size of a cell
phone. However I have several issues.
1. Battery life. Using a bluetooth receiver plus things like WiFi must
drain the phone's battery quickly. What kinds of results have others had?
2. No braille display
3. Since Sendero is lisencing the product and not building it themselves,
it could suffer from the same lack of updates as SenseNav.
However I understand that the features of Sendero GPS version 5 are
available for mobile geo, whereas SenseNav hasn't been updated in well over
a year.
Thoughts and suggestions would be apreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Eric
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