Things I'd Like To See On The TomTom Go

[MrRubberGloves]

[sgould]

That's what I mean.

If I want a safety camera warning. I have the distance set at 273 yds (the distance it came with). This is set for the 4 different sets, gatso, mobile,specs & redlight. In London at 30 mph the distance gives me nearly 20 seconds warning. On a 70 mph dual carriageway I would get less than 8 seconds. This is plenty of time to react if you are on your own, but if you are in a convoy you may not wish to slow too fast.

On the other hand, if I increase the warning distance so that I get, say, 10 seconds on a fast road, I will get over half a minute warning in town. If there is stop / start traffic the warning could be over a minute, which I would say is too long.

To keep the times more constant I would have to manually adjust the distance of all 4 settings every time the speed limit changed.

[MrRubberGloves]

I get you now.

I read somewhere that the people at Pocket GPS who maintain the camera database are hoping to one day have a different file for each gatso, ie a file for a gatso at 30mph, a file for a gatso at 40mph etc. So when that's done you can then set different yardage warnings for each.

[SGR1913]

this is exactly what i've done with the French speed cameras, whoever started it wisely prefixed the description with the speed. So i sort them in poiedit and split it into databases for each speed limit. Each one has its own bmp, and i set the warning distance considerably different for 130 and 30 kmh
Works very well in practice, you just need the UK cameras to be updated with the speed limit

[DavidW]

I've had some more discussion with Richard (Oldie) in the past 24 hours about splitting up the camera database by speed. We can now do this fairly easily - but the big problem is that we don't have speeds for most of the cameras.

If you look at the latest pocketgps_uk_gatso.ov2, you'll see that speed limits where we know them do appear - some entries appear as , for example, GATSO:11@50 - where the @50 bit means 50mph. I believe Richard is thinking of changing the @ to a different character - though I can't remember his reasoning for that.


It would really help if people would resubmit existing cameras with the speed limit, or simply send a list to the cameras email address saying, for example, GATSO:11 is 50mph.



David

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