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

There are some Garmin units that speak the turns but are otherwise 
inaccessible. I have had a GPS12 for many years and they are solid GPS 
receivers.

Mike

At 08:39 PM 1/31/2005, you wrote:
>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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