[gps-talkusers] The Garmin GPS-12

Hello, Mary Ellen,
Perhaps your GPS is trying to give you too much information.  So far, I have 
not been able to get my Garmin Gps-12 to work with a screen reader, but that 
is because of the mapping software not being designed for compatibility with 
screen readers.  Most GPS have a "Cross Track Error" (CTE or XTE) function 
that tells you how far to the left or right you are of your previously 
plotted course.  XTE has its limitations in that it is only good between two 
waypoints, and the track between adjacent waypoints must be a straight line. 
  That should not be too hard to set up.  Whenever you have to change 
course, go around a corner, whatever, just punch in a new waypoint.  That 
should give you some kind of sequential waypoint number.  Then, you can 
string all those waypoints together to create a route to wherever you want 
to go.

For comparison to other GPS units, my Garmin GPS-12 has storage capacity for 
a total of 500 waypoints and 20 routes of up to 30 waypoints per route, more 
than enough for wherever you want to go.  It outputs in NEMA format to the 
outside world, which I understand is about standard.

Happy routing

Dick Myers

From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: New upgrade:
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:46:09 -0800

Dick! This is what we actually did but I think what is happening is that the
gps is telling me intersections and things and confusing me. I don't know
enough about the area to actually know whether I am doing the correct thing
or not.

Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Myers" <dkmyers28@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:29 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: New upgrade:


 > As a suggestion, ask someone to go to Map Quest and have a look at the
 > area
 > around where you are.  Then, send a printout to TeleAtlas to show them
 > they
 > may have missed a street.  Maybe you can't create a new directory from
 > that
 > Arizona map base, but you could certainly create a route and hold it in
 > memory so you could resolutely march along that same route whenever you
 > wanted to.  Just walk anong that route with your GPS turned on.  Any GPS
 > will be able to do that even without any kind of mapping software.  A
 > friend
 > of mine in Sweden showed me a shortcut through the forest to the hostel
 > where I was staying.  I put that route on my Garmin GPS-12 and could find
 > either end of the trail any time I wanted, then could navigate all the
 > twists and turns without getting lost.
 >
 > Dick Myers
 >
 > From: Charles La Pierre <lapierre@xxxxxxxxx>
 > Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 > Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: New upgrade:
 > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:13:11 -0800
 >
 > Hi Mary
 >
 > Since we don't have the new maps yet we can not say if that particular
 > street has been added to the 2005 maps from TeleAtlas.  I assume you
 > reported the problem to TeleAtlas informing them of this oversight, so
 > they
 > could fix the problem and be in this new release of the maps.  If not 
well
 > we will have to just wait and see.  Can you give me the Lat/Lon of where
 > the street should be and what the name of the street is, and the two
 > street
 > names it connect to which is on the current map.
 >
 > Out of curiosity is this a relatively new street?
 >
 > Thank you.
 >
 > At 07:21 AM 1/29/2005, you wrote:
 > >Will this new upgrade fix the major bug in the maps which was pointed 
out
 > >right after we got the version three? I am having a horrible time with 
my
 > >exercise route out here in Scottsdale because this map is simply not
 > showing
 > >me a street I need to be on and although I am not lost it is certainly
 > >different than the route that Seeing Eye mapped out for me and I am
 > >unable
 > >to install the Aroizona map on Trekker because the thing insists it 
can't
 > >create a dirrectory.
 > >
 > >Mary Ellen Earls
 > >Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
 >
 > Charles M. La Pierre CTO
 > Sendero Group, LLC
 >
 > Lat. 37 15' 25" N  Lon: 121 53' 04" W
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > (8):[(8)
 >
 >
 >
 >





(8):[(8)

Other related posts: