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PaulBt
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112 works just as well as 999
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MrRubberGloves
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulBt wrote: | | 112 works just as well as 999 |
Does it? I never knew that.
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DennisN
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:32 am Post subject: |
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112 is the international 999 - in this country it has been set to do the same thing so that Johnny Foreigner can use his familiar number. We too could learn to use it, so that we are familiar with the European number.
Here's an oddity for you to try.
When I navigate from here to there, I pretty soon have to turn onto High Street (in Keynsham). Katie Komputer Voice says "Turn left, High Street, Collyers". What's Collyers?? I thought it must be some glitch in the street name here in Keynsham, but she did it the same for High Street in Wick (about 5 miles away). Has anybody else got a High Street they can try, to see how widespread this is?
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MrRubberGloves
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | 112 is the international 999 - in this country it has been set to do the same thing so that Johnny Foreigner can use his familiar number. We too could learn to use it, so that we are familiar with the European number.
Here's an oddity for you to try.
When I navigate from here to there, I pretty soon have to turn onto High Street (in Keynsham). Katie Komputer Voice says "Turn left, High Street, Collyers". What's Collyers?? I thought it must be some glitch in the street name here in Keynsham, but she did it the same for High Street in Wick (about 5 miles away). Has anybody else got a High Street they can try, to see how widespread this is? |
Just tried out a route using High Street in Keynsham and she too said something similar after High Street. |
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DennisN
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I KNOW she does it in Keynsham - I'm wondering if she does it in Blackpool, or Wigan, or Oldham??
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MrRubberGloves
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | I KNOW she does it in Keynsham - I'm wondering if she does it in Blackpool, or Wigan, or Oldham?? |
Yep, it does it in Blackpool too, at least it's not a North/South divide.
It sounds as though she's saying conyers. |
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| MrRubberGloves wrote: | Yep, it does it in Blackpool too, at least it's not a North/South divide.
It sounds as though she's saying conyers. |
I've reported this to Tomtom already. I think she's saying 'Colliers' myself. It's done it for every High Street I've encountered.
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DennisN
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | I've reported this to Tomtom already. I think she's saying 'Colliers' myself. It's done it for every High Street I've encountered. |
Oh GRRR. Does that mean you've beaten me for a free lifetime membership?
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wulls
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| I have since discovered my 720 will change the location curser but only when you are viewing the map in 3D mode a mode I never use, I like to see the map it gives you better idea of where you are. |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | I think she's saying 'Colliers' myself. It's done it for every High Street I've encountered. |
I think it's a reference to a defunct magazine, which probably had a newspaper shop outlet on every High Street at one time before it went bust and became part of the local usage naming phenomenon.
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Tim Buxton
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| DennisN wrote: | | Tim Buxton wrote: | | I've reported this to Tomtom already. I think she's saying 'Colliers' myself. It's done it for every High Street I've encountered. |
Oh GRRR. Does that mean you've beaten me for a free lifetime membership? |
To what?
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Tim Buxton
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| wulls wrote: | | I have since discovered my 720 will change the location curser but only when you are viewing the map in 3D mode a mode I never use, I like to see the map it gives you better idea of where you are. |
Really? You can have it in 2D north up or 2D direction up.
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DennisN
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | DennisN wrote: | | Tim Buxton wrote: | | I've reported this to Tomtom already. I think she's saying 'Colliers' myself. It's done it for every High Street I've encountered. |
Oh GRRR. Does that mean you've beaten me for a free lifetime membership? |
To what? |
Don't Tom Tom do free memberships for people who submit the first accurate report of a subsequently verified whatsername?
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:44 am Post subject: |
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I thought I was going mad...
Brentford High street has an attack of the "collyers" too!  |
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PaulBt
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Andy_P2002 wrote: | | Brentford High street has an attack of the "collyers" too! |
Also Cricklade High Street.
It must be a very odd bug, as the system should just be reading the road name from the map data...
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