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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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8 comments:
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Tom Smith said...
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My work has required GPS use since they were first available to non-military folks. Garmin has the best operating system but TomTom may have a more accurate map. My experience anyway.
I used to use paper maps and have boxes full of them as my hope is that the GPS satellites are knocked out and I can sell them for big money -
12/18/12, 7:54 PM
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I-RIGHT-I said...
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Satnav is great. That way everybody knows where you are and where you're going. When they put you on trial for your life your life will all be right there tied up in a pretty little bow. You are magnetic ink...or somehing.
I have a map and a low flying Jag. I'll get there first and it will be a big surprise to everybody.
F'it. I'm still getting one. -
12/18/12, 8:35 PM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Wrong - Sat nav receives sat signals, there are no transissions from your car like with OnStar®
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12/18/12, 9:06 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Don't trust those things... Three times I've seen people driving onto railroad tracks after dark because the thingy said turn right here, and they do.
ignore amos -
12/18/12, 9:47 PM
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David said...
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Seven years ago I was in San Diego with a group that all wanted to go to a certain restaurant for dinner. Four of them had out their GPS systems getting directions to the restaurant. When they had them we piled into our cars and when everyone pulled out of the parking lot and went right - I went left. I went to the second light, made another left and followed a twisty turning street through a residential area until we drove up over a hill and right on the other side was the back parking lot of the restaurant we were looking for. We parked and walked inside, asked for a table for 12, then went back outside where we waited for everyone else to show up. It took them about 3 more minutes. And they came into the parking lot from two other directions than we had. Knowing that I didn't have a GPS system, they asked how I got there so quickly I told them "I asked the desk clerk at the motel for directions."
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12/18/12, 9:56 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Indeed, GPS receive and do not transmit. However... if you use functions like traffic or weather, then yes, they do transmit and receive info, and other info can be sent. While the attached articles aren't the ones that I was looking for, they convey, roughly the same story that I had heard before. Tom-Tom, in europe, sent the data, in real time, to the government so that they would be able to see where traffic slow downs and accidents were occurring so that they could plan more effectively, well, instead they predictably sent the cops there to create speed traps. Why fix a problem when you can create revenue from it instead? Ooo, we have a speeder inbound, quick, get out your speed measuring device and ticket them! My Advice? turn off your traffic, etc and just use it for directions.
http://www.neowin.net/news/tomtom-sends-your-data-to-the-police
http://www.gpscity.com/buzz/2011/05/tomtom-sells-gps-data-to-police.html
thoR~ -
12/19/12, 2:46 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I happen to know a Garmin engineer. He's an a$$-hat, so I'm frankly surprised to report I have both Garmin and TomTom in the various autos, and Garmin is more intuitive to use. For me anyway.
The engineer tells me that the portable/hand-held units are better than those built into the dashboard. This because the technology is older on the built-in units. There is about a 5-year lead time on the built-ins, because of how cars are designed, and the portables have a much shorter time to market. -
12/19/12, 7:32 AM
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Drew said...
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TomTom does not have a more accurate map than Garmin.
TomTOm bought TeleAtlas a few years ago -- the maker of the map they licensed. They make their map on the cheap -- with no on the ground verification.
Garmin, on the other hand, uses NAVTEQ map data , which has been the leader in map quality and accuracy for 20 years.
Keep your map updated in your Garmin and you are golden. -
12/19/12, 10:42 AM
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