Which gps is the best

Hi,
A nice simple one here.... Which GPS is best for a UK driver.

Cost not a major issue...

Many thanks

Paul

Most any GPS will do the technical function. How it fits your auto and
your needs is more important. Most important is the data base that is
included or bought for the GPS. Accessories and transfering data to a
pc is important.

Mapping accuracy should be your major concern. Test one out.

IMHO, NAVTEQ & Tele Atlas are knowingly selling worthless history and
fiction to the GPS manufacturers. Address, POI, name and feature
lookup should not be depended on.

HISTORY: The maps showing the road we live on is mapped using a 20
year old data base. Bridges have come and gone.

FICTION: If they don't know a location, they will provide one anyway
with no warning to the user. PonderosaSports.com was originally built
in this exact location 9 years ago.

No GPS manufacturer or mapping company can correct false coordinates.

N43.96675 W116.18913 (maps.google.com) wrote:


Have you looked into the 911 database for your location? That is one of
the most commonly used data sources for getting updated info on new
homes and streets into the mapping data. I don't know exactly how it
works or who gets what data from what agency, but it may be that your
issue stated with a local town or city office having some bad data in
something like the 911 database. That stuff gets passed onward and
upward and can eventually make it into the TIGER database as bad data.
Believe it or not, no one on the Federal side goes out and checks every
address. And it is highly unlikely that NavTeq does either.

If your incessant whining and sniveling here about your problem with
your address is typical of your style of communications for working the
issue, I'd be surprised if that does not account for the lack of
response your getting from what your call "mapping companies".

Try checking the address from the point of origin (a tax office or city
hall typically) forward, it is is wrong there now it will always be
wrong when the data goes forward again.

Trust me, no one here can fix your problem, no cares about it, and we've
heard enough about it.

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)

OR - maybe NAVTEQ & Tele Atlas are selling 50 year old data?

N43.9418 W116.1964 (maps.google.com)

Do you have any smart-assed explaination for the bridge in the
following photo? How about - Created and field checked 1957. SOLD and
copywrited 2005 by all mapping programs.

Oh, by the way, the bridge was removed 20 years ago.

Some of the data in NavTeq and TeleAtlas is a lot more than 50 years
old, a lot of it is newer than that too.

The purpose of maps is to present an analogy of some of the features of
the real world. They don't present all the features of the real world,
just certain categories of features. And there is a scale of importance
or relevance within each category so some of the less prominent or
important features are omitted.

When I look at that above location on google maps and it shows it simply
as a location a little west of state route 55. No specific detail or
map feature is seen there.

If I go to the satellite image I can see that the map image accurately
represents the geographical relationships of the features shown.

Also, from the photo I see there is a creek or river with water in it.
I assume it is not shown on the map because it is either a seasonal
waterway or not of enough importance to be shown on that map.

I'm not surprised or disappointed to find that what is shown as an area
with no features on the map actually has more features and character in
a photograph of the real world.


Smart-assed explaination (sic)? I don't get your point here. As to the
photo, this is a usenet news group that does not permit the posting of
binary images. So your "following photo" and the bridge is not seen.
If you post a link to the photo (stored on your web page, in your
personal web storage space at your ISP, or one of the publicly available
image hosting sites on the Internet) I could see it.


What bridge? Where?

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)