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Finally gave in and got one. Utterly brilliant.

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Peter wrote:

|| They don't work in Devon though!

That's exactly where I was this weekend, and it worked fine! It didn't know
about a new junction layout on the A30 near Bodmin (not even finished yet,
so hardly surprising) and it did send us up a short one-way street in
Okehampton (paint not dry on the signs yet!) but otherwise it was faultless.

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On 2006-05-01, Richard Brookman <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's exactly where I was this weekend, and it worked fine! It didn't know
> about a new junction layout on the A30 near Bodmin (not even finished yet,
> so hardly surprising) and it did send us up a short one-way street in
> Okehampton (paint not dry on the signs yet!) but otherwise it was faultless.

This kind of thing is quite common, there's a fair few junctions and
one-way streets that confuse it, I used to have a different piece of
software by a different manufacturer that made exactly the same
mistakes, they're based on the same inaccurate map data.

Still worth their weight in gold though.

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Richard Brookman wrote:
> Finally gave in and got one. Utterly brilliant.

Indeed they are! The new GO x10 range is even better with a widescreen,
true speech and iPod Support.
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Darren Griffin (SII Disco, Freelander and Series One owner)
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 
Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com wrote:

|| Richard Brookman wrote:
||| Finally gave in and got one. Utterly brilliant.
||
|| Indeed they are! The new GO x10 range is even better with a
|| widescreen, true speech and iPod Support.
|| --
|| Darren Griffin (SII Disco, Freelander and Series One owner)
|| PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
|| The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums

Thanks a bundle Darren, seeing as how I have just shelled out on the 700!

I've visited the TT website and updated the software, but it seems that the
map updates are a) not available yet, and b) chargeable. Is this true? I'd
quite like the latest maps before setting off on holiday in June.

Testing your speed camera database tomorrow!

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Rich
==============================

I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.


 
Richard Brookman wrote:
> Thanks a bundle Darren, seeing as how I have just shelled out on the
> 700!
> I've visited the TT website and updated the software, but it seems
> that the map updates are a) not available yet, and b) chargeable. Is
> this true? I'd quite like the latest maps before setting off on
> holiday in June.
> Testing your speed camera database tomorrow!

Indeed map updates are chargeable. There should be one along with the v6
software upgrade (software upgrade is FOC) which should be announced
shortly.

The 700's a great unit, unless you specifically wanted SiRFIII, iPod Support
or the widescreen then there's little else that would better the 700 in the
new models.

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Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 

"Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> Richard Brookman wrote:
>> Thanks a bundle Darren, seeing as how I have just shelled out on the
>> 700!
>> I've visited the TT website and updated the software, but it seems
>> that the map updates are a) not available yet, and b) chargeable. Is
>> this true? I'd quite like the latest maps before setting off on
>> holiday in June.
>> Testing your speed camera database tomorrow!
>
> Indeed map updates are chargeable. There should be one along with the v6
> software upgrade (software upgrade is FOC) which should be announced
> shortly.
>
> The 700's a great unit, unless you specifically wanted SiRFIII, iPod
> Support or the widescreen then there's little else that would better the
> 700 in the new models.
>
> --
> Darren Griffin
> PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
> The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums

I was nearly buying a 700, since the price has fallen, but I am surprised to
hear you have to pay for updating.
So I will leave it for now, and buy one already updated
Gordon>


 
Hiya,

I used my Garmin StreetPilot 111 all the way to Senegal and it never got us
lost once. I use the the Mapsource software version 6.10 and I have not had
a problem with it at all.

The voice gets a bit of a pain though.

Andy


"Gordoni" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected]...
>> Richard Brookman wrote:
>>> Thanks a bundle Darren, seeing as how I have just shelled out on the
>>> 700!
>>> I've visited the TT website and updated the software, but it seems
>>> that the map updates are a) not available yet, and b) chargeable. Is
>>> this true? I'd quite like the latest maps before setting off on
>>> holiday in June.
>>> Testing your speed camera database tomorrow!
>>
>> Indeed map updates are chargeable. There should be one along with the v6
>> software upgrade (software upgrade is FOC) which should be announced
>> shortly.
>>
>> The 700's a great unit, unless you specifically wanted SiRFIII, iPod
>> Support or the widescreen then there's little else that would better the
>> 700 in the new models.
>>
>> --
>> Darren Griffin
>> PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
>> The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums
>
> I was nearly buying a 700, since the price has fallen, but I am surprised
> to hear you have to pay for updating.
> So I will leave it for now, and buy one already updated
> Gordon>
>


 
Gordoni wrote:
> I was nearly buying a 700, since the price has fallen, but I am
> surprised to hear you have to pay for updating.
> So I will leave it for now, and buy one already updated
> Gordon

Why? You wouldn't expect your paper road map to be replaced every year FOC
would you? The map data is a huge portion of the cost which the
manufacturers have to buy in under licence. Considering a map DVD for a
factory fit system can cost £150-200 the £60 upgrade fee that TomTom and
others ask is rather good value IMHO.


--
Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 
On 2006-05-02, Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why? You wouldn't expect your paper road map to be replaced every year FOC
> would you?

What I was interested in was the TDMS traffic update system, does that
work well with the new machines and is TDMS in use in this country?
I'd rather use that than rely on GPRS connections via my mobile.

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On Tue, 2 May 2006 11:13:12 +0100, Ian Rawlings <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 2006-05-02, Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Why? You wouldn't expect your paper road map to be replaced every year FOC
>> would you?
>
>What I was interested in was the TDMS traffic update system, does that
>work well with the new machines and is TDMS in use in this country?
>I'd rather use that than rely on GPRS connections via my mobile.

The Nissan satnav has traffic updates and I haven't managed to work
out how. The menu says it is using the TMS service. There's no SIM
card anywhere and it isn't using my mobile phone to get the data....

Spooky, but it works damned brilliantly...


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Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'03 Volvo V70
'06 Nissan Navara aka "The Truck"
 
On 2006-05-02, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Nissan satnav has traffic updates and I haven't managed to work
> out how. The menu says it is using the TMS service. There's no SIM
> card anywhere and it isn't using my mobile phone to get the data....

Ah, TMS is probably what I was thinking, a bit too much communications
theory in my errant youth seems to have caused some time-division
multiplexing to creep in somewhere..

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Tim Hobbs wrote:
> The Nissan satnav has traffic updates and I haven't managed to work
> out how. The menu says it is using the TMS service. There's no SIM
> card anywhere and it isn't using my mobile phone to get the data....
>
> Spooky, but it works damned brilliantly...

It collects the data over FM, in the UK TMC Data (traffic message channel)
is broacast as a sideband data feed on ClassicFM.

--
Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 
Ian Rawlings wrote:
> What I was interested in was the TDMS traffic update system, does that
> work well with the new machines and is TDMS in use in this country?
> I'd rather use that than rely on GPRS connections via my mobile.

I assume you mean RDS TMC via FM? We haven't had a TMC receiver to test yet
but having used other systems that use RDS TMC the results are OK. However
the quality of the UK's TMC data is still very variable but that's down to
the data providers iTIS.

--
Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 
Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com wrote:

|| Indeed map updates are chargeable. There should be one along with
|| the v6 software upgrade (software upgrade is FOC) which should be
|| announced shortly.
||
|| The 700's a great unit, unless you specifically wanted SiRFIII, iPod
|| Support or the widescreen then there's little else that would better
|| the 700 in the new models.

Hang abaht. I've just discovered a voucher with a code on it in the
packaging I was about to discard - looks like it might be for a free map
upgrade when they become available. I understand what you say about
charging for upgrades, but it would be nice to have one that was up-to-date
out of the box.

I've never heard of SiRFIII and I don't have an iPod, so I reckon the GO
will be OK for me.

The speed camera database is great. It warned me of the faint possibility
of a camera at the site where I got done last year. And that's a mobile,
not a fixed site. The "bing-bong" as you approach is great, but a voice
saying "slow down you fat f*cker" might be more appropriate.

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Rich
==============================

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On Tue, 2 May 2006 19:13:41 +0100, "Darren Griffin -
PocketGPSWorld.Com" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Tim Hobbs wrote:
>> The Nissan satnav has traffic updates and I haven't managed to work
>> out how. The menu says it is using the TMS service. There's no SIM
>> card anywhere and it isn't using my mobile phone to get the data....
>>
>> Spooky, but it works damned brilliantly...
>
>It collects the data over FM, in the UK TMC Data (traffic message channel)
>is broacast as a sideband data feed on ClassicFM.

Another mystery solved!

It is dead good, but there is the same weakness as in the Traffic
Master system I had years ago. Not all the roads are covered, so the
sat nav will tend to divert you off the motorway onto minor roads,
only to find that those minor roads are stuffed worse than the
motorway you were previously on. I wonder the source data comes from
- is it just the traffic sensors or are police sources and 'phone in'
data added in as well?



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Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'03 Volvo V70
'06 Nissan Navara aka "The Truck"
 
On 2006-05-02, Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com <[email protected]> wrote:

> I assume you mean RDS TMC via FM?

Sounds like it, although I seem to be suffering from acronymaphobia at
the moment, IYSWIM.

Whatever I meant, it was certainly using FM and RDS-like encoding so I
suspect you've hit the nail on the head.

> We haven't had a TMC receiver to test yet but having used other
> systems that use RDS TMC the results are OK. However the quality of
> the UK's TMC data is still very variable but that's down to the data
> providers iTIS.

I'd heard hints that the system was technically working but wasn't
much use in this country as the data wasn't much good, I hope that
improves soon. I was searching for a cheap head unit that could
display the data but gave up when I kept reading that it's not very
accurate anyway.

Having to mess about with the mobile and bluetooth to get traffic data
isn't something I want to do as I wouldn't bother on every journey,
and as far as I'm concerned a traffic warning system isn't any use if
you have to set the darned thing up before every trip.

Plus of course not being able to use bluetooth for the mobile for
anything else while the sat nav is using it..

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
Software updates are free (and the 700 will benefit from the newer
models when its firmware gets upgrades in the near future). Map
updates are what cost money. If you like the 700, you are probably
getting a good deal!

Gordoni wrote:

> "Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected]...
> > Richard Brookman wrote:
> >> Thanks a bundle Darren, seeing as how I have just shelled out on the
> >> 700!
> >> I've visited the TT website and updated the software, but it seems
> >> that the map updates are a) not available yet, and b) chargeable. Is
> >> this true? I'd quite like the latest maps before setting off on
> >> holiday in June.
> >> Testing your speed camera database tomorrow!
> >
> > Indeed map updates are chargeable. There should be one along with the v6
> > software upgrade (software upgrade is FOC) which should be announced
> > shortly.
> >
> > The 700's a great unit, unless you specifically wanted SiRFIII, iPod
> > Support or the widescreen then there's little else that would better the
> > 700 in the new models.
> >
> > --
> > Darren Griffin
> > PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
> > The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums
>
> I was nearly buying a 700, since the price has fallen, but I am surprised to
> hear you have to pay for updating.
> So I will leave it for now, and buy one already updated
> Gordon>

 
On Tue, 2 May 2006 20:13:47 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

> I'd heard hints that the system was technically working but wasn't
> much use in this country as the data wasn't much good, I hope that
> improves soon. I was searching for a cheap head unit that could
> display the data but gave up when I kept reading that it's not very
> accurate anyway.

TrafficMaster YQ or their SmartNav thing but probably fails at the
"cheap" requirement. I'd like a satnav but given the choice between a TM
YQ or satnav the YQ would win. You can pop a postcode into multimap or
WHY at home to find out where a place is then print a suitable scale
"homing in" map. For the bulk of the journey I want to know that the
roads are clear, unlike the Friday afternoon when the A1 south was closed
near Leeming (after a fatal accident) and the tail back reached Scotch
Corner.

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