[gps-talkusers] Sendero availability in South Africa
- From: "Jan Kleinhans" <jhkleinhans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:28:46 +0200
Hi
Some time ago I asked this question on the website whether sendero has plans to
make their products available in South africa, but I did not get any reply, but
got the choice to subscribe to the list. So, does anybody out there know if
there might be any plans for that? A long time ago I asked a simular question,
but then I was told that maps were not available. Now, wayfinder did work here,
and there are many maps from tele atlas and other providers for this country
now. It would be nice to know if this is in the pipeline. I know some users
of gw micro products like the voice sense, but they can not use sensenav
products as there are no maps available for our country.
Would be glad for any info in this regard.
Jan Kleinhans
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles LaPierre
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:15 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: First try of 2010 version
Hello Judi,
I am sorry to hear that you feel the product got worse compared with the 6.2
version in 2009. I can assure you that was not our intent and to some degree
we are at the mercy of our POI and map data providers. We had major POI
restructuring to try and consolidate and reduce the number of POI categories
and remove duplicates. We are always striving to do better with each release.
We did inform the POI company that there were missing POIs in that release and
they told us this should be fixed in our next release of the data we get.
Fingers crossed that the Hospitals and schools which were missing will show up
again. This lack of data was detected during Beta but there was nothing we
could do but report the issue to TeleAtlas and wait for them to look into and
eventually fix the problem.
As for the terminology try switching to UK English and see if this better
fits with Australian. If this still doesn't completely solve the problem
Sendero could consider having a third option of Australian English and modify
those strings to match what you normally expect, If you would like to provide
us a list of all the strings which should be changed we can see about adding
Australian English to our product if UK English doesn't solve your problem.
As for your City issue. During beta testing this past year one of the UK
beta testers noticed this problem in the UK which has a similar situation so a
code change was made to also include the county along with the city
information. It wasn't until the final release candidate did one of the beta
testers from Australia complain that they wanted this change as well. So
unfortunately this wasn't added just before a release. FYI, we had 4 beta
testers from Australia in our beta team.
For our next release we will make this change also for Australia. To make
sure this will fix your issue please ask for detailed city information with
Space C / Read C and check if the information you want is in the County field,
or maybe for Australia it's the Burrow or Neighborhood field.
Thank you,
Charles LaPierre, CTO
Sendero Group LLC
http://www.SenderoGroup.com
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From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judi Potts
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:22 PM
To: gps-talkusers
Subject: [gps-talkusers] First try of 2010 version
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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