nearly OT: Tachographs whats coming

>>> Some of us unfortunates are victim to the infamous spy in the cab (
>>> sometimes applicable to Landies as well if you tow for work and probably
>>> some High Caps) . well I have spent a mind numbing 4 hours learning about
>>> the next EU agreed abomination - digital tachos.
>>
>> And of course this is basically the road test for the new black boxes that
>> they are going to mandate in EVERY vehicle in the next few years, the ones
>> we have to have for road tolling, which as a sideline will be able to
>> grass
>> us up for every possible speed violation and allow big brother to track
>> our
>> every move 8-(.
>
>I thought they were intending to allow the SatNav system to control a
>vehicles maximum speed in line with the speed limit on the road one is
>travelling down.
>Now most cars are becoming "fly by wire" it's not beyond the bounds of
>possibility that this is only a few years away.

I'd love to see em try to fit that to my IIa....

Alex

"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> >>> Some of us unfortunates are victim to the infamous spy in the cab (
> >>> sometimes applicable to Landies as well if you tow for work and
probably
> >>> some High Caps) . well I have spent a mind numbing 4 hours learning
about
> >>> the next EU agreed abomination - digital tachos.
> >>
> >> And of course this is basically the road test for the new black boxes
that
> >> they are going to mandate in EVERY vehicle in the next few years, the
ones
> >> we have to have for road tolling, which as a sideline will be able to
> >> grass
> >> us up for every possible speed violation and allow big brother to track
> >> our
> >> every move 8-(.
> >
> >I thought they were intending to allow the SatNav system to control a
> >vehicles maximum speed in line with the speed limit on the road one is
> >travelling down.
> >Now most cars are becoming "fly by wire" it's not beyond the bounds of
> >possibility that this is only a few years away.
>
> I'd love to see em try to fit that to my IIa....
>
> Alex

They won't need to, they'll just legislate against you and make you scrap
it, and me, mine as well.

Martin

"Ian Rawlings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 2006-11-12, Derek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't think I'm that interested really having just bought my own sat
>> nav last week as the tight b*st*rds wouldn't cough up, wouldn't really
>> need
>> it if the hyst-clerical staff would learn to take details down correctly-
>
> Lots of stories in the press about satnav systems taking trucks down
> roads with low bridges, narrow roads etc, so watch out for that!
>
>> I should put the soapbox back in the cupboard got an addon POI that
>> shows Landrover dealers locally handy!
>
> Was it you who smokes the occasional cigar? If so email me (this addy
> is valid) as I've made a POI file of tobacconists who sell cigars, and
> will be working on one that lists all the curry houses in the "Good
> Curry Guide" at some point ;-)
>
> --
> Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

Thanks for the offer Ian but I gave up cigars long ago, now good currys
thats whole other thing good luck with that one mate. Btw I have one marked
RLD so I checked it in winzip -Red Light Districts my god is there no limit
to this thing?. I know my area pretty well what screws me up are silly
addresses like Oaken Farm nr Stockport once I have a post code its easy
peasy , actually I know that farm as it belongs to friends but thats the
kind of thing we have to put up with .

Derek

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:51:21 +0000, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2006-11-12, Richard Brookman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The world will be grateful. (Just ordinary tobacconists would be enough -
>> mind the file wouldn't be very big.)
>
>Well, anyone who wants a tomtom navigator format poi file of
>cigar-stocking tobacconists can email me using a valid email address,
>and I'll attend to it tomorrow. Some of them have a crap selection,
>others are huge cigar shops, no real way to tell which is which from
>the POI file I'm afraid!

if you submit it to one of the gps sites (like here
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtompoi.php ) it will then show up as
one of the easily downloaded ones in poiedit
(http://www.poiedit.com/sites.htm) which would be nice!

On 2006-11-13, Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> if you submit it to one of the gps sites (like here
> http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtompoi.php ) it will then show up as
> one of the easily downloaded ones in poiedit
> (http://www.poiedit.com/sites.htm) which would be nice!

POIEdit seems only to work with Pocket PC "bill gates on the move"
hardware so I'll be leaving that one alone until they open it up a
little!

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On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:57:20 +0000, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2006-11-13, Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> if you submit it to one of the gps sites (like here
>> http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtompoi.php ) it will then show up as
>> one of the easily downloaded ones in poiedit
>> (http://www.poiedit.com/sites.htm) which would be nice!
>
>POIEdit seems only to work with Pocket PC "bill gates on the move"
>hardware so I'll be leaving that one alone until they open it up a
>little!

I thought it would sync to any folder?
Im sure i last had it sync the pois to the tomtom folder on my memory
card which was just plugged into a card reader and sitting on a drive
letter?

On 2006-11-13, Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought it would sync to any folder?

Not sure, I've only just got my Tomtom 910 and am still at the
fiddling around, buying presents and gently caressing phase, not the
"get out of my way" and "do you ever stop talking" phase. Given that
I don't tend to use Windows I've not tried POIedit, just read the
blurb which only mentioned pocket PC stuff.

> Im sure i last had it sync the pois to the tomtom folder on my memory
> card which was just plugged into a card reader and sitting on a drive
> letter?

I'll have a crack at it, I've installed the tomtom home app on a
sacrificial windows box so I suppose I can install poiedit and give it
a prod.

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On 2006-11-13, Derek <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know my area pretty well what screws me up are silly addresses
> like Oaken Farm nr Stockport once I have a post code its easy peasy
> , actually I know that farm as it belongs to friends but thats the
> kind of thing we have to put up with .

It's a shame this Tomtom 910 I just stumped up for still doesn't
understand OS GB format co-ordinates, that's what my local RoW group
uses for rendezvous points, for good reasons. Now Tomtom have opened
up their API it's possible to write modules that interface into the
app, rather crudely it seems however, but it might be possible to
write a programme that converts from OS GB format co-ords and creates
a POI at that point, I might have a crack at that some day. ISTR
though that conversion is non-trivial due to it not being a straight
mathematical calculation.

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On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:30:00 +0000, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2006-11-13, Derek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I know my area pretty well what screws me up are silly addresses
>> like Oaken Farm nr Stockport once I have a post code its easy peasy
>> , actually I know that farm as it belongs to friends but thats the
>> kind of thing we have to put up with .
>
>It's a shame this Tomtom 910 I just stumped up for still doesn't
>understand OS GB format co-ordinates, that's what my local RoW group
>uses for rendezvous points, for good reasons. Now Tomtom have opened
>up their API it's possible to write modules that interface into the
>app, rather crudely it seems however, but it might be possible to
>write a programme that converts from OS GB format co-ords and creates
>a POI at that point, I might have a crack at that some day. ISTR
>though that conversion is non-trivial due to it not being a straight
>mathematical calculation.
Derek,

You can use this site to convert grid references:

http://www.obliquity.com/astro/osgb.html

Regards

Terry

On 2006-11-14, nemo2 <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can use this site to convert grid references:
>
> http://www.obliquity.com/astro/osgb.html

Not on the 910 itself I can't ;-)

There's plenty of online sites that can do it, the OS themselves do
one, but one built-in to the device would be useful. If I can be
arsed I'll look into it sometime, at the moment I've got work, the
house, the krautwagen and the plastic rocket to sort out so I won't
hold my breath.

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