[gps-talkusers] Re: The Garmin GPS-12

Does thisGermon speak?

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 4:36 PM
Subject: [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
> >
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