Hi Steve yes there are a lot of problems with poi's here in Darlington the poi for "Queen Elisabeth sixth form college" is 700ft out I have a public user poi at the gate also when I lookup my house address 44 Orchard Rd and set the address to it then ask gps where am I it says 10 Orchard.
However a lot of the commercial are quite good here, by the way my support worker driver uses Tom-Tom in his car and its certainly not perfect, and recently in a taxi I was dropped 150ft short of my customer's house because the taxi driver was using a gps (I don't know what model), but braillenote told me I'd passed the house!
What was it like five years ago how did we manage at all? mmm.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:15:32 +0100 Subject: [gps-talkusers] UK MAP PROBLEMS
With increasing experience it is becoming obvious thatthere are many severe problems with the UK maps. Many POIs are out of position by very large amounts. Some roads appear to be fragmented and the information given for 'complex' junctions like roundabouts and motorway entrances and exits is often so wrong as to be misleding and certainly could not be relied upon to give a driver instructions.
I am surprised that some of the POI data has not beencorrected. Commercial concerns cannot be happy if their positions are shown as being more than a few yards out of place. I have examples of errors where the POI is round about a mile from its actual position!
I am not sure if the presentation of 'complex' junctioninformation is totally the fault of TeleAtlas or whether Sendero has a hand in the problem. For example on leaving the M4 at Junction 12 (Reading Central) the instructions given are to turn left on to the slip road and then left on to the roundabout at the bottom of the slip road. There needs to be a further instruction telling you which exit to leave the roundabout by. You could want to go left (south) toards basingstoke (first exit) or North towards Reading (third exit). The second exit takes you back on to the M4 heading west for Bristol!
So although V4 has seen a great improvement it hasintroduced a number of new problems - some of which should be fixed by a free update of maps.
I wqill need a lot of assurances before spending £120 onanother upgrade if the maps are not improved. Incidentally this is approximately 15 times the cost of a new road atlas and 6 times the cost of buying a new updated CD of maps for other GPS systems.
How is anyone finding life with Wayfinder which also
uses TeleAtlas maps!
Steve
