[gps-talkusers] First try of 2010 version
- From: Judi Potts <pottaroo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:22:23 +1000
I went out yesterday for my first trip using the 2010 version and was really
looking forward to it. However I was quickly disappointed by what I found (or
more to the point what I didn't find). I have always promoted Sendero GPS to
my friends as the best product for our travel needs, however, at the moment I'm
not too sure.
The first, and very major thing was that I couldn't find railway stations,
there were a few listed, but certainly none on the lines that I was travelling
on. For some reason unlike the older version they have been changed to
'Transit Stop', a term we don't ever use in this country and with no mention of
railway station. Absolutely useless, especially as there are some listed as
railway stations and some listed as this transit stop, assuming of course that
nothing else like trams or buses are listed as transit stops too, then we'll
all get lost!
Also there is the 'city' problem. We are different from the USA, when it reads
out the city it's reading out the municipal council district, not the actual
city that you're in, so if you're going down a long stretch of the Nepean
Highway which goes for miles and miles, you have no idea if you're in
Moorabbin, Bentleigh, Highett, Cheltenham or any of the other suburbs that are
in the council of Kingston, becasue it just reads Kingston, so in other words
you're lost.
The major hospital I was going to wasn't listed (I'm sure it used to be),
unless it's be put in the wrong category, I'm still searching for that. After
every single POI the tags are read out so after every POI you also get RMF
which drives you crazy, is there some way to turn that off??
I'm afraid I don't like the upgrade and am annoyed at the fact that I've paid
hard earned money for a product (and SMA) that is not up to the standard of the
older version. I sincerely hope that further ugrades take into consideration
that more attention needs to be given to other countries other than the USA as
you're marketing this product to the world.
Sincerely Judi Potts
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