Article: 56330 of sci.geo.satellite-nav From: Misanthropist User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: GPS V 2.9beta wierdness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.218.216.75 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc03 1041528524 24.218.216.75 (Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:28:44 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:28:44 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:28:45 GMT Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn11feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc03.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:56330 Hi, I was the lucky recipient of a GPS V on Christmas morning! (I've been using an eMap and eTrex Vista up until now.) I had the opportunity to try it out as we drove from Massachusetts to Maryland for a few days visiting friends. Here's the wierdness. I had the City Select maps loaded for the area around home and the area around our destination in Maryland. The unit found a route that pretty closely matched the directions from the friends that we were visiting. So far so good. What I found was that once I was using the routable basemap, the unit had trouble keeping track of where I was - but only while navigating. It would continually tell me to go say SW to I95 (while I was on I95) giving a distance to the next exit where I'd be able to get onto the interstate. So, I figured the basemap is just off far enough that it got confused. However, when I would take a turn that was different than the route it had planned and it kicked into route planning mode, it would immediately know what road I was on, ticking off the upcoming exits, etc. This was consistent throughout the trip. If it wasn't navigating, it correctly determined the road I was traveling on, if it was navigating (on the basemap only) it was consistently confused. Within the area where the City Select maps were loaded it was on target perfectly. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Is it perhaps a problem with the beta version? Thanks, -- Misanthropist N42 15.900 W071 21.069 Alt 56.7m/186'