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
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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 the
GPS 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 Earthmate
Blue 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 but
only 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