[gps-talkusers] Re: help please: a bunch of problems

Alex,
Sounds like it would be the best to give me a call.
Please contact me on 1.888.757.6810 ext 106

Carl Simmons
Sendero Group Training and Technical Support
1-888-757-6810 Ext. 106
carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Parks
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:09 PM
To: Gps List
Subject: [gps-talkusers] help please: a bunch of problems

Hello all,

I am having problems with my system.  I have a BrailleNote mPower 
and use the Blue Logger receiver.

Today, the first beautiful day in Maine practically all year, my 
mobility instructor and I were playing around with the GPS 
downtown.  It took the system a while to figure out which street 
I was on.  After it had my position, I planned a route.  For some 
reason, even though all the streets have sidewalks, it would only 
let me do a vehicle route.  So we started off.  The first street 
we came to was perpendicular, and it wanted me to turn right.  I 
checked again, and yes, still right.  Knowing that was exactly 
opposite of where I wanted to go, I took a left.  It then told me 
to take a right again, on "unnamed".  That unnamed street was a 
smallish path through a little park.  A car would have been hard 
pressed to make it.

Many more instances like that happened, plus it told me to take 
that right and continue straight.  I did, and at the next 
intersection it said I was supposed to turn around and go back 
PAST the street on which I had started, only to go along the 
street I had just followed.  (Force sequential waypoint following 
was off this whole time.) The BN also liked to tell me that I 
started at WP 4, and jumped to 7, and it just kept skipping 
around like that.

Another route proved to have the same problems, except that this 
one wanted me to go a block up, parallel a street, then go back 
down and continue.

I have not had much success with this system ever since I got it.  
It is my first one, and I thought, from hearing so many wonderful 
things about it, it would actually be able to tell me where to 
go.  The more I use it, the less I like and trust it.  If I were 
in a strange place, I do not doubt for a second that I would get 
hopelessly lost.

Sorry, Sendero.  I know it works for many people, but I guess I 
am just lucky.  If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.

Thanks for listening to me just go on, and on.

Have a great day all,
Alex

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