[gps-talkusers] Re: my first trip with 4.0--not good

Its Eudora.
This is why I went to Outlook. 

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From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles LaPierre
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 8:19 PM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: my first trip with 4.0--not good

Sorry about the duplicate messages everyone, For some reason Eudora is being
funny and putting into the To field two copies of gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
when I sometimes reply to messages.  Its driving me nuts.  Has anyone else
have this happen?
I think my machine is possessed!

Charles.

At 08:12 PM 7/29/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Alex, let me try to explain some issues you are encountering.
>See below.
>
>At 06:27 PM 7/29/2007, Alex Parks wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I just tried to walk a simple, half-mile route then come back. 
>>Because of the Blue Logger I had to create the route partway through, 
>>but as soon as I did I had "skipped 2 points along route".
>>How could I since I had created the route not five seconds previous to 
>>that message?
>
>A possible reason why this may occur.
>GPS does jump around and before you created the route your GPS position 
>could have been quite far from where you are, and therefor the starting 
>point you already passed and then the nearest point may be a 
>non-turning waypoint and therefore the next waypoint you are trying to 
>get to is the next turn at Waypoint #3.
>
>Waypoint 1 is the GPS location when you pressed create route, Waypoint 
>#2 is either going to be the next intersection ahead (if your GPS 
>location is less than 50 feet from the nearest street), or Waypoint #2 
>is going to be  the perpendicular bisection from the GPS location to a 
>point on the street which forms a 90 degree angle) (i.e. a straight 
>line from your GPS to the street) which will be a turning point on the 
>street and then Waypoint #3 will be the next intersection.
>
>So after the route is created then the system looks to see where your 
>new "current" location is along the route and will take distance 
>readings between yourself and WP1, WP2, WP3 etc.  and if you are closer 
>to WP3 then it will say skipped x number of waypoints.
>
>Sorry if that is confusing, but behind the scene that is what is going 
>on, the system is constantly looking to see if you are on route, which 
>waypoints you are closer to and if you never reach a specific one and 
>you are all of a sudden closer to a waypoint further down your route 
>that is when you will get the skipped x # of waypoints along your 
>route.  Unless you turn on "Force sequential route following"  Then it 
>won't skip waypoints.
>
>
>>Anyway, all turns were announced very early and I kept getting 
>>sequences of messages like "Approaching xxx street in 250 ft."
>>"Turn right on xxx street". "xxx street, 100 ft ahead". Why would it 
>>say I was approaching, tell me to turn, then tell me I had not even 
>>reached the street onto which it just told me to turn??? BTW, my 
>>accuracy through this little treck was between 25 and 54 ft (4-7 
>>satellites).
>
>Ok first it sounds like you also have Lookaround mode "Intersections" 
>turned on, this could be causing the duplicate messages about upcoming 
>intersections as well as the route announcements.
>
>The system will give you 2 messages, one announcing the "Approaching" 
>turn, and then when you get closer to the turn a "Turn Now" message.  
>These messages are should be announced ahead of time, to give you 
>enough time to prepare yourself for the upcoming turn.  With GPS error 
>and map error the last thing we want to do is for you to actually hit 
>the street, cross the street and then the system tells you "oh by the 
>way that was the street you were soposto turn on".
>
>The BlueLogger by the way isn't as accurate as the newer Holux Slim
>237 (Sirf III) GPS receiver which is smaller, alot more accurate, and 
>has a very fast time to first fix (I usually get a GPS fix within about 
>15-20 seconds).
>
>>I love the new interface and bluetooth receiver handling. I love the 
>>new POI database and other updates to the maps. The routes and 
>>accuracy are quite bad, though. I will say they are not as bad as they 
>>were in 3.5, but it is like routes are planned from either your 
>>starting or ending point in a previous route or something and not from 
>>where you are at the time at which you create the route. I must just 
>>be lucky--I seem to always be the one with the bad experiences with 
>>these updates. <smile
>
>Alex this doesn't sound right, the system does pick your current GPS 
>location as the starting point (as long as you are in GPS mode.  If you 
>are in Virtual mode it will pick your Virtual location as the starting 
>point.
>
>Please send me a route in your opinion is "bad" and I will look to see 
>what the system did.  Also tell me what the route should have done 
>instead.  Also it may help to send me a "Replay" of your GPS when you 
>create the route so I can see what is going on.
>
>Thanks.
>Charles.
>
>
>>Have a great day,
>>Alex
>
>Charles M. La Pierre CTO
>Sendero Group, LLC
>
>Lat. 37 15' 25" N  Lon: 121 53' 04" W
>

Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC

Lat. 37 15' 25" N  Lon: 121 53' 04" W

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