Hi from the UK where the issue of roundabouts is a
matter of safety, at the moment if we in the Uk try to
tell a driver how to navigate around a Roundabout it
just doesn't work because we are unable to advise the
driver in advance which exit he must prepare to leave
the Roundabout at it is considered dangerous driving by
Traffic Police if a driver changes lanes on a roundabout
the driver is supposed to select there position eg the
correct lane and stay in it not change lanes and that is
why the roundabout information is just not safe to use
any within the Uk by any of the Sendero customers.
I think safety is a little more inportant than knowing
whats on offer at the nearest Pizza joint!
Gavin.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:06:40 -0500
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Help understanding
roundabouts
Hello Alice. I'm not Charles, nor do I represent
Sendero in any way
other than the simple fact that GW Micro uses Sendero
SDK for our Sense
nav GPS product. With this in mind, I'd like to point
out a couple of
things.
Let's take GPS out of the picture and simply talk about
a new feature or
set of features for any software. The truth is, no
matter what new
features, enhancements, or bug fixes are added to any
software, it's not
going to benefit everyone. This however does not mean
that just because
not everyone can always take advantage of new features,
that their needs
are not important. Where the difficulties start is when
you have a set
of features which might benefit a few, VS a set of
features which might
benefit a lot. Sure, we can go back and forth as to
where the line is
drawn on what determines a few and what determines a
lot. Believe me,
everyone's needs are important, but any software company
has to look at
the bigger picture.
Now, let me use Window-Eyes as an example. When version
6.0 came out,
one of the newest features of it was the ability to work
well with
PowerPoint. There were a lot of other features and
enhancements, but
PowerPoint was one of the bigger ones. I personally do
not use
PowerPoint, nor do I really care how well it is
supported. However, I
realize that in a lot of cases, the ability to have
access to PowerPoint
might mean the difference in a person's ability to keep
a job. In
addition, there were, as I mentioned, a lot of other
features which were
not show-cased quite as much, but which over all
enhanced the stability
and usability of Window-Eyes regardless of whether
people used them or
not. At the time, I did not work for GW Micro, so what
I say comes from
the view point of a customer and not an employee. Did
the fact that I
didn't use PowerPoint prevent me from purchasing
Window-Eyes upgrade? It
certainly did not. While PowerPoint was useless to me,
I still wanted to
get the upgrade to take advantage of all the other
features, not only
that, but I like staying current with my screen reader.
The simple truth
is, no matter what enhancements come from a new upgrade,
whether they
are major ones or minor ones, it does not mean that the
needs of a
smaller group of people are not being met. I'm not
saying that round
abouts are less important or that it was left out
because of not as many
people requesting for such support. From the messages
I've read, it has
not been a simple matter of adding good support for this
type of area.
But what Sendero, and any company for that matter, have
to do is balance
out where they will focus for new releases. The simple
truth is that
usually that focus is where it will benefit the most
people. My
suggestion to you is to hang in there and keep
supporting Sendero. From
their track record, it's obvious they do what they can
to stay on top of
various situations regarding traveling with GPS.
All the best.
alice dampman said the following on 12/20/2007 7:11 AM:
Charles,
You wrote:
"I can't for example spend all my time
working on just thing that may only help out a select
few people or
when we release we would get hammered by those users
who don't need
such an enhancement and will scream why are we forcing
them to pay
for this upgrade when it only helps out some users. "
Quite frankly, IMO it would be better to pay attention
to those
requesting, even pleading for a feature that is vital
to their everyday
navigation and ignore those who scream if some feature
added is not
necessary to them. No matter what you do, there are
going to be some who
like it, need it, can't live without it and some who
never use it. So
why is this roundabout matter any different from any
other?
I live in Boston, and we have tons of these
roundabouts all over the
place.
Alice
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
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