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24-11.-2007, 08:09 PM
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Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
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http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve The road sign, not the border collie! -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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24-11.-2007, 10:17 PM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
In message <UskC2kHRh$RHFw$C@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Gordon H
<Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes >See "Today's Pictures! Album at: > >http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve > >The road sign, not the border collie! fascinationg - the border collie is nice too :-) BTW I've seen "sleeping cats" that appear to breathe. Clever stuff. -- Bill Grey |
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24-11.-2007, 10:44 PM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Gordon H wrote
> The road sign Great idea. We could do with them 'round here. I can't see it being obeyed, mind. They need to program innappropriate routes out. Chris |
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25-11.-2007, 01:25 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Gordon H wrote:
> See "Today's Pictures! Album at: > > http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve > > The road sign, not the border collie! Re dog: URK! I remember fireplaces and carpets like that! Scary... -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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25-11.-2007, 01:48 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Bill Grey <wdg@graigroad.demon.co.uk> writes
>In message <UskC2kHRh$RHFw$C@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Gordon H ><Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes >>See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >> >>http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >> >>The road sign, not the border collie! > >fascinationg - the border collie is nice too :-) > >BTW I've seen "sleeping cats" that appear to breathe. Clever stuff. We had a dog just like her, and the family are all coming over (from California and Cairns) at Xmas. It corpsed Mavis when she saw it, and now she wants one. It's realistic enough to give me a start every time I walk in the room. :-) -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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25-11.-2007, 01:50 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Kate XXXXXX <kate@diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> writes
>Gordon H wrote: >> See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >> http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >> The road sign, not the border collie! > > >Re dog: URK! I remember fireplaces and carpets like that! Scary... > :-) Picture a log fire, I have some ready for when the family are here. -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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25-11.-2007, 02:03 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Kate XXXXXX <kate@diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> writes
>Gordon H wrote: >> See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >> http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >> The road sign, not the border collie! > > >Re dog: URK! I remember fireplaces and carpets like that! Scary... > I've added a REALLY scary one, what happens when you have a dog, a cat, and an open fire. The cat always won... -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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25-11.-2007, 02:23 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
In article <gCVolwSafESHFwS6@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Gordon H <Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes >Bill Grey <wdg@graigroad.demon.co.uk> writes >>In message <UskC2kHRh$RHFw$C@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Gordon H >><Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes >>>See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >>> >>>http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >>> >>>The road sign, not the border collie! >> >>fascinationg - the border collie is nice too :-) >> >>BTW I've seen "sleeping cats" that appear to breathe. Clever stuff. > >We had a dog just like her, and the family are all coming over (from >California and Cairns) at Xmas. It corpsed Mavis when she saw it, >and now she wants one. It's realistic enough to give me a start >every time I walk in the room. :-) It's a little bit too clean for a *proper* collie :-) -- Malcolm |
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25-11.-2007, 06:15 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Gordon H wrote:
> Kate XXXXXX <kate@diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> writes >> Gordon H wrote: >>> See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >>> http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >>> The road sign, not the border collie! >> >> >> Re dog: URK! I remember fireplaces and carpets like that! Scary... >> > I've added a REALLY scary one, what happens when you have a dog, a cat, > and an open fire. The cat always won... They are both beautiful. I'm sure they would protect me from the carpet! I'm currently typing with this on my lap... It keeps shoving the keyboard away! > http://tinyurl.com/3xny4q -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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27-11.-2007, 12:43 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
That is a bizarre message. I can only imagine it send lorries to the front
of a store and not the back. I have to say I have been immensely impressed with the GPS/Stanav on my phone - it got directions right even when I got them wrong e.g. It cant be up there it looks like a side road Rob "Gordon H" <Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message news:UskC2kHRh$RHFw$C@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid... > See "Today's Pictures! Album at: > > http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve > > The road sign, not the border collie! > -- > Gordon H > (Remove "Invalid" to reply) > |
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28-11.-2007, 02:45 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Malcolm <Malcolm@indaal.demon.co.uk> writes
> >In article <gCVolwSafESHFwS6@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Gordon H ><Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes >>Bill Grey <wdg@graigroad.demon.co.uk> writes >>>In message <UskC2kHRh$RHFw$C@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Gordon H >>><Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes >>>>See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >>>> >>>>http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >>>> >>>>The road sign, not the border collie! >>> >>>fascinationg - the border collie is nice too :-) >>> >>>BTW I've seen "sleeping cats" that appear to breathe. Clever stuff. >> >>We had a dog just like her, and the family are all coming over (from >>California and Cairns) at Xmas. It corpsed Mavis when she saw it, >>and now she wants one. It's realistic enough to give me a start >>every time I walk in the room. :-) > >It's a little bit too clean for a *proper* collie :-) > There speaks a man who has owned one! -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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28-11.-2007, 02:53 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Kate XXXXXX <kate@diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> writes
>Gordon H wrote: >> Kate XXXXXX <kate@diceyhome.free-online.co.uk> writes >>> Gordon H wrote: >>>> See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >>>> http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >>>> The road sign, not the border collie! >>> >>> >>> Re dog: URK! I remember fireplaces and carpets like that! Scary... >>> >> I've added a REALLY scary one, what happens when you have a dog, a >>cat, and an open fire. The cat always won... > >They are both beautiful. I'm sure they would protect me from the carpet! > >I'm currently typing with this on my lap... It keeps shoving the >keyboard away! >> http://tinyurl.com/3xny4q > Beautiful cat, and he has an intelligent look on his face! The carpet has been down for over 30 years, and just will not wear out. It was perfect when we had three kids because it hid any colour of stain, no matter how interesting they were! It is still just about impossible to find any small object dropped onto it. ;-) The previous carpet was an A00 top quality carpet laid by a reputable firm who did all the floor coverings where I worked. Laid in 1961, it was worn out in about 12 years... -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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28-11.-2007, 03:02 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
Rob Devereux <rob.devereux@linacre.ox.ac.uk> writes
> >"Gordon H" <Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message >news:UskC2kHRh$RHFw$C@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid... >> See "Today's Pictures! Album at: >> >> http://tinyurl.com/2n3bve >> >> The road sign, not the border collie! >> -- >> Gordon H > >That is a bizarre message. I can only imagine it send lorries to the front >of a store and not the back. No store, it is a residential road which leads down to a narrow lane in a valley. > I have to say I have been immensely impressed >with the GPS/Stanav on my phone - it got directions right even when I got >them wrong e.g. It cant be up there it looks like a side road > >Rob My car SatNav is very useful, but they all need to be used intelligently. I suspect that many of the "howlers" occur when the unit is programmed to find the Shortest rather than the Fastest route, choosing unsuitable roads, although the opposite can apply. One of the first journeys I made was when we were taking my daughter and her partner for a pub lunch, and it wanted us to go completely in the wrong direction. It was carefully avoiding a 10p Toll Bridge by taking a huge loop because I had programmed "No Toll roads" into it. My fault, but trying to explain this through the gales of laughter was impossible. -- Gordon H (Remove "Invalid" to reply) |
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28-11.-2007, 03:33 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
In article <fiem2k$mg3$1@frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk>,
rob.devereux@linacre.ox.ac.uk (Rob Devereux) wrote: > the front of a store and not the back. I have to say I have been > immensely impressed with the GPS/Stanav on my phone - it got > directions right even when I got them wrong e.g. It cant be up > there it looks like a side road On several occasions when out walking I've come across vehicles working their way up, or backing down, unpassable tracks that their satnav has directed them to follow. I get a good chuckle out of pulling out my OS map that cost a few quid and directing them back on to the right road after their expensive hardware has lead them astray. Jon. |
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28-11.-2007, 08:12 AM
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Re: Sat Nav in Cars (Photo comment)
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from Gordon H <Gordon@g3snx.demon.co.uk.invalid> contains these words: > My car SatNav is very useful, but they all need to be used > intelligently. I suspect that many of the "howlers" occur when the > unit is programmed to find the Shortest rather than the Fastest route, > choosing unsuitable roads, although the opposite can apply. Not with mine. (Garmin Nuvi 310). Twice while wombling round mid Wales it has tried to take me down mud tracks that I would have thought twice about if I was in a 4 x 4. One seemed to lead eventually to a farm with another access but the other was obscure to the extent that I couldn't see where the other end was once I had taken then long way round. I haven't dared to try the shortest route option as the unit has a prediliction for single track roads even on the quickest option. Watching the ETA can be illuminating. On good roads (even single carriageways) I can get marginally ahead if the traffic isn't heavy but the worse the road the the quicker the ETA disappears into the distance. On winding single track roads the discrepancy between the predicted and the actual can be 100% or more. I don't know how they arrive at the predicted speeds but it must be a very crude measure. ISTR that someone suggested that at least one of the sat-nav suppliers actually had people driving the routes to get the data. I can't see that as a realistic option but I would be very surprised if whoever determined Garmins criteria had a UK driving licence. -- Roger Chapman Nearest Marilyn still to be visited - Great Orme. 89 miles as the crow flies, considerably more as the walker drives. |
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