[gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?

Hi,

Thanks for all your help.
In this case it is an address number which seems to be a block or so to the south of the actual location, (my house). Today we tried following the way-points to see where we'd end up, and were not able to locate where it said my address was. We were trapped in a parking lot. My address is 7051, and it says I live anywhere from 7072-7082 depending on when I'm checking my location. So far, commercial points of interest seem to be pretty right-on, and the way-points just until my address are all right.
Could it just be faulty mapping. Also between where it says my address is, and where it actually is we have a busy intersecting street just to make it fun when experimenting. 
Any ideas?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:31 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?



Hello Amy,
When you say its a block or so off what is this in relation to? The nearest cross street, a commercial POI, a user POI you created at this location, or a house number?
Commercial POIs can be off quite a bit, cross streets are usually dead on, but house numbers can also be off quite a bit depending on the area based on interpolation. So once you tell us why you think the system is off by a block then we can figure out if its bad POI data, map address data or something else going on. 

Thanks
Charles.

At 04:22 PM 5/26/2009, you wrote:

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? 
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From: <mailto:brettsta21@xxxxxxxxx>Brett
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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.

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From: <mailto:amym2@xxxxxxx>Amy Murillo-Hicks
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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
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From: <mailto:renee@xxxxxxxx>Renee M Zelickson
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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.
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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.

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[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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