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Anita Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 3219 Location: Windlesham, Surrey
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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A recent email from Garmin said: "Garmin Safety camera data has the most accurate safety camera data, most frequent updates and now we’ve reduced the cost of yearly subscriptions to just £29.99."
So unless they've reduced it again it's still considerably more than the PGPSW one.
And can they really claim it's the most accurate and most frequently updated? What about the Trade Descriptions Act, which makes it "an offence for a trader to apply, by any means, false or misleading statements"? _________________ Anita
TomTom VIA 135 - App 12.075
UK map 1130.12368
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15150 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Anita wrote: | A recent email from Garmin said: "Garmin Safety camera data has the most accurate safety camera data, most frequent updates and now we’ve reduced the cost of yearly subscriptions to just £29.99."
So unless they've reduced it again it's still considerably more than the PGPSW one.
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sorry anita, i wasn't implying that they had dropped it to an equal amount as ours, just that they had dropped the price!
should have been clearer...
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Anita Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 3219 Location: Windlesham, Surrey
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Wasn't being critical, MaFt, just saying that even their reduced price is considerably more than 'ours', unless they've reduced it further.
I really posted to point out Garmin's claim that theirs 'has the most accurate safety camera data' & 'most frequent updates'. _________________ Anita
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wavemeister Occasional Visitor
Joined: May 28, 2007 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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You can even get it to speak a warning as you approach a camera, it will say "safety cam UK Tomtom 100 yards" |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Yes but you can't get it to say the speed limit like you can with the one from this site (or any POI based database).
After having accidentally added the TT database as well as the PGPSW one Ive always used, I've now got the TT one set up to say:
"F*** me, I've actually found a camera!", whenever it registers one!
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mikealder Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 19638 Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Andy, what does it say though when it thinks there is a camera at a location, but in reality there is nothing at the location - Mike |
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awdriver96 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 02, 2005 Posts: 18
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Quick question, what are the .ver files on the TT camera database and can I safely remove them to put the
PGPS files on my recently aquired 710?
Thanks guys
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: |
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IIRC, the 'ver' files are just a version number and the files are used by Home to help it's tiny brain work out what the POI files are (that's why ordinary 3rd party POI files don't show up on Home any more).
Delete away.... (or why not just move them to a backup somewhere, in case you should ever want to see just how bad they are ) |
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awdriver96 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 02, 2005 Posts: 18
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Andy
I am putting the PGSW speed cams on the 710 as I got a free traffic /speed cam on the 720 I just got, but it cant be on both machines ( ridiculous really, a limit of say 2 units per owner yes but a separate subscription to a crap database! never)
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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awdriver96 wrote: | Thanks Andy
I am putting the PGSW speed cams on the 710 as I got a free traffic /speed cam on the 720 I just got, but it cant be on both machines ( ridiculous really, a limit of say 2 units per owner yes but a separate subscription to a crap database! never)
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I'd be interested to hear your comparison of the two. When you realise ours is better you can always replace TomTom's with ours! _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Don't forget you can put the PGPSW one on the 720 too (no rules against that) and run them side by side. You soon realise which one is best then! |
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