[gps-talkusers] help please: a bunch of problems
- From: Alex Parks <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
- To: Gps List <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:08:50 -0500
Hello all,
I am having problems with my system. I have a BrailleNote mPower
and use the Blue Logger receiver.
Today, the first beautiful day in Maine practically all year, my
mobility instructor and I were playing around with the GPS
downtown. It took the system a while to figure out which street
I was on. After it had my position, I planned a route. For some
reason, even though all the streets have sidewalks, it would only
let me do a vehicle route. So we started off. The first street
we came to was perpendicular, and it wanted me to turn right. I
checked again, and yes, still right. Knowing that was exactly
opposite of where I wanted to go, I took a left. It then told me
to take a right again, on "unnamed". That unnamed street was a
smallish path through a little park. A car would have been hard
pressed to make it.
Many more instances like that happened, plus it told me to take
that right and continue straight. I did, and at the next
intersection it said I was supposed to turn around and go back
PAST the street on which I had started, only to go along the
street I had just followed. (Force sequential waypoint following
was off this whole time.) The BN also liked to tell me that I
started at WP 4, and jumped to 7, and it just kept skipping
around like that.
Another route proved to have the same problems, except that this
one wanted me to go a block up, parallel a street, then go back
down and continue.
I have not had much success with this system ever since I got it.
It is my first one, and I thought, from hearing so many wonderful
things about it, it would actually be able to tell me where to
go. The more I use it, the less I like and trust it. If I were
in a strange place, I do not doubt for a second that I would get
hopelessly lost.
Sorry, Sendero. I know it works for many people, but I guess I
am just lucky. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks for listening to me just go on, and on.
Have a great day all,
Alex
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