[gps-talkusers] Re: finding our way in Australia

Hi Mike

Wonderful to hear that the Australian map is working so well.
The waters of Australia is home to many sharks, and many swimmers and surfers have been killed by these hungry sharks. Probably these nav-aids are warning the boaters of the locations where sharks are normally found.
Hope to hear more Australian updates from you as Gil and myself try out the Hong Kong Maps in the coming week at the IMC12 Conference. 

Regards
Cheng
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] finding our way in Australia
I am getting a real kick out of using the maps here in Australia for the first time. My wife and boys are with me and I asked them to be patient and to let me do all the guiding with the GPS so I can see just how the maps and routing is working here. We have had a number of experiences worth noting.
We took a day long tour into the Blue Mountains so I'd get to see how things were in Sydney and in the outlying areas. The POIs were pretty good. Our guide was impressed when I would ask him about nearby small towns or funny sounding points of interest. The data was pretty good. I got to check out the vehicular routing and it seemed fine other than one major road that was not in the map data.
I was really surprised on a pedestrian route from the Marriott to a restaurant called Fish on the Rocks that we were routed on something called the Argyle Stairs. These were an actual set of stairs that took us over a highway. Won't it be great when more pedestrian paths are in the map data one of these days?
We took ferries, we found our way to the Sydney Aquarium and back and found any number of restaurants. The typical big city issues ocasionally occurred when the direction of travel would be thrown off by the tall building multi path affect. By using the getting warmer method for my destination, I was not fooled by this multi path. It is amazing that virtually every signal intersection has an audible indicator and they are the good kind, not those coocoo sounds.
We are now in a nearby place called Manly where there aren't tall buildings and directionality is much better. I noticed that some of the fix nav aids in the POI database coming over here from Sydney on the ferry had the word, "shark" in them. I wonder just what these were.
It has been great to be the navigator for my family on this holiday and I look forward to another day or so of exploration. 

Mike



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