[gps-talkusers] Re: speaking passing cross streets.

Here in New England, city planners or road planners or whoever they are have the deplorable habit of never putting street signs along main thoroughfares. So the driver can see the names of the cross streets, but there is often no way of telling what street you are driving on. For obvious reasons, this is a real problem if you are lost. Everyone says that here in New England, the attitude reflected
in this practice is:
If you weren't born here, or if you don't know where you are, you shouldn't be here.
So having our GPS speak the street you are on as well as the cross street at least once in a while is helpful.
Alice
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 1:17 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: speaking passing cross streets.


Doug,

Not sure why you think we have strongly resisted an announcement of the cross street only. This is the first request to my knowledge for that feature. We add these requests to our database and prioritize them based upon the number of user requests and the difficulty of implementing the feature.

I personally think this is an excellent idea.

Mike


At 06:20 PM 8/24/2006, you wrote:
Pardon me but on this issue I have to disagree stongly with Mike May. I use
the sendero system everyday. I also have owned a Trekker for many years.
Although you can't do things like plan a route with Trekker in vehicle mode,
you can hear every street name as you travel on a bus or by car. It speaks
it quickly and succinctly. My most serious complaint with the Sendero GPS
system is the lack of verbosity settings. For example, if there were a
"quick speak mode for intersections, you just need to hear the street your
crossing, not the street your on. For some reason this has been resisted by
the company. I believe it could be a terrific aid for people trying to
identify upcoming streets as you travel by bus.
That My two cents.

Doug Wakefield 




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