[gps-talkusers] Re: unanswered questions
- From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:15:33 -0700
Hello Alice,
It is difficult to figure out exactly what happened in this case after the
fact.
We would need a GPS replay of the situation and the route created as well.
It all depends on if this is a vehicle or pedestrian route, if vehicle route
and there are specific one ways near your starting position this could cause
some problems depending on where the system "thinks" you are at the time you
created the route and also which direction the system "thought" you were
travelling. So without knowing your exact starting location and which
direction you were travelling at the time the route was created its pretty
much a guess as what happened.
The system when creating a route will take into account your current heading
if known and will try to create the best route on the closest street heading
in that direction. The system may pick a side street close by if the street
you are on is a one way in the opposite direction to where you are
travelling or may require you to do a UTurn.
Thanks.
Charles M. LaPierre
CTO Sendero Group
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of alice dampman Humel
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:41 AM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] unanswered questions
Hi, all,
On March 17, I posted a message describing some difficulties and
asking some questions.
As of yet, no answers. Could someone help me out? (charles? Chris?
somebody? hint, hint...)
If you'd like me to send the message again, I can do that. In fact, here
it is so anyone who would like to help does not have to go hunting for it.
Hi, all,
Last night, I had a ride home from Symphony Hall. Since the person
picking me up had trouble finding the place, I switched on the GPS, figuring
he'd never find his way to my house.
I did this while I was waiting for him to arrive, so the gPS had plenty
of time to fire up. And, BTW, that was my question about Mike's story...how
did you get the GPS up and running fast enough to be able to potentially
tell that driver anything?
I know the area around Symphony Hall very well. We had to make a U-turn
or go around the block to be heading in the right direction. What the GPS
told us to do was make a U, but that U-turn had about 11 steps to it...turn
left on Gainsborough, turn left on ramp to Gainsborough, proceed ahead on
Gainsborough, turn left onto unnamed to US 9, turn left onto ramp for US 9,
proceed ahead on ramp to US 9, turn onto US 9, etc, etc. Since I knew what
all this meant, I could tell him, make a U-turn. But if I had been in an
unfamiliar area, I, and I presume the driver, would have been hopelessly
confused. The same thing happened during the transition from Route 1 to
Route 16. He actually had a GPS, the usual Garmon or Tom-tom, and all his
thing said was turn right, 200 yards or whatever. I realize he can see the
map, but still, isn't the direction of "turn onto 16 East" sufficient
without all the in-between steps of ramps, turn onto ramp, proceed ahead on
ramp, turn off of ramp, etc.?
OK. We kept going, and the next direction was to turn left onto
Berkeley. Well, he got off of Huntington Ave., but that was OK, because you
can still turn left onto Berkeley. However, he missed that turn. (Anybody
thinking I should have taken the subway yet? ha ha) Again, his GPS just
said, turn blah blah. Mine started "recalculating route, swish, swish,
swish." It did this numerous times. So what are you supposed to do while
we're swishing? The driver can't sit still and wait for it to recalculate.
And now, a quick question...what is the command on a PK to return to the
next turn in "real time" if you've looked ahead to see what the next few
turns are? In other words, to bring you back to where you are in reality
along the route? And, if the look-around announces something, how do you get
rid of that announcement to repeat what the last direction was?
Thanks so much for help.
Alice, who is bound and determined to learn to use the Sendero gps well, but
who is still struggling...
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks.
Alice
alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx
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