[gps-talkusers] Re: Lack of Traffic Lights
- From: Joleen <cjferg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:50:23 -0700
Hi Leslie.
I am not a GPS power user, but I think you could add information
about details of specific intersections or anything else by
creating way points. These would jog your memory about the
specific details of a given intersection configuration, traffic
patterns and availability of signals and even give indication of
accessible pedestrian signals with vibrotactile information
available for you. Of course, you could not do your whole city
or state, but you could mark places where you travel and expect
to go again. You can do this in virtual mode with your O and M
instructor in virtual mode without having to actually be at the
specific location, but the person helping you would have to be
very familiar with the details you would need to add. You could
mark spots several feet back from each corner so that you would
have time to process the information before reaching the corner
and you could give more specific information depending on the
path you are taking. I believe you would have to be in a route
to create way points. Perhaps you could create user POI's that
could include specific information as described above. That
would not require that you would be in a route. Let others who
are more knowledgable expand on this idea.
Joleen
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles LaPierre <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:49:55 -0700
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: Lack of Traffic Lights
Hi Leslie,
Unfortunately there is no traffic light information in the data
from
TeleAtlas. I doubt Navtech has this information either. I am
currently at a conference hosted by TeleAtlas and I will ask that
question for you but I don't expect that information will be
easily
obtainable. No commercial product that I am aware of has traffic
light info, but maybe I could pitch it that improved route
calculations could be made based on the # of traffic lights you
must
go through.
We will see, thanks
Charles
At 03:39 PM 6/12/2008, you wrote:
My teacher taught me GPS lessons today. My first time to learn
how
to destination and route.
I am disappointed because GPS does not have the traffic lights
location.
Route guide me and tell me turn 3 or 9 oclock but I can not go
across the busy street
without the traffic light. I MUST have the lights where I can
walk
across the streets.
How could I command it? Could there make a new version?
Leslie--
Charles M. La Pierre
CTO Sendero Group
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