Sarai,
Rick Fox Director of Sales and Marketing De Witt & Associates 1-877-447-6500 rick@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi: Last night, mine recalculated in a vehicle rout w/ no warning. It might have been because there are two ways to get to my destination and the BN probably was adjusting for the way that Mom chose to get there.
Sarai D. Bucciarelli
-----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Parks Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:17 PM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx?? Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: 3.5 frustrations
Mike,
I will try going to a differen area. As far as the recalculation goes, it isn't the function I like, it is how the BN seems to do it for no reason. I will not be told anything--no turns, no "continue straights" no nothing--and all of a sudden I hear, "recalculating pedestrian". I have no idea why it does this. Should I reinstall or something? Maybe redownload and replace my map? I saved one of the routes that gave me trouble. Should I send that to anyone?
Thanks, Alex
----- Original Message ----- From: Michael May <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:59:08 -0700 Subject: [gps-talkusers] 3.5 frustrations
Alex,
It is hard to know what is exactly happening without being there.Two suggestions:
Try a route in a completely different area and see what happens.
And, you can turn the automatic route recalculation off in theGPS Options Menu if you don't like the behavior.
Mike
At 01:34 PM 4/30/2006, you wrote:Hi all,
I finally got a nice day, with little wind so I could hear my BN. I took a walk with GPS 3.5 and my mPower, using the EarthmateBlue Logger. I created a route, and intentionally went the wrong way at first, but was never told I was wrong. I turned around, giving up on being notified of my error, a feature I was looking forward to. After a while of NOT being told to turn (there was only one street to turn on anyway) I was told I had missed to points along the route. I was told to turn left, correctly, and I must say the accuracy was amazing; I was told to turn at the exact moment when I would have still been on the sidewalk. That narrow a margin and it still got it right!
Anyway, things like that kept happening--going the wrong way butonly being told so once, randomly being told I had missed two points of which I was never notified... and I was always being told "recalculating pedestrian route" when I had never been told to turn. Why does this happen? It is absolutely maddening; I was looking forward to all the new features, and the accuracy is amazing. Now, however, it seems my GPS refuses to give me any information on where I am going. I read the routes section of the manual, and it told me nothing I didn't already know. Oh, what is the "connecting to street" in the route? For example, the first waypoint would be a few feet away, called "connecting to (street name)", where street name was either the street or intersection from which I was supposed to start. BTW, I was never below having 5 satellites (48? feet) the whole time.
Thanks for any help, Alex