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SatNav Directly Responsible For Man's Death
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

spook51 wrote:
It does - and has.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7362254.stm

Clever BBC - they are using the same satnav picture as the Telegraph in the article linked by Mostdom on page 1. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I was looking for good splash images, and I came across this one:
http://www.colinj.co.uk/tomtom/splash/slipway/splash.bmp

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:
spook51 wrote:
It does - and has.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7362254.stm

Clever BBC - they are using the same satnav picture as the Telegraph in the article linked by Mostdom on page 1. Rolling Eyes


Except the BBC used it two and a half years earlier.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

couple of thoughts:
- When do we ever drive within the limits of our headlights!? in order to be able to stop in the distance you can see in headlights (dipped anyway), wouldn't you have to be going about 10mph? Usually you rely on there being nothing unlit in the darkness ahead of you.

- I agree that some of the mapping seems dodgy, e.g. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Embalse+de+la+Serena,+Badajoz,+Extremadura&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.301109,57.084961&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=Fd4hUgIdjLCv_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Embalse+de+la+Serena&ll=38.922391,-5.228076&spn=0.024741,0.055747&z=15
seems to show a road disappearing across the reservoir. But then actually the road in the picture before the lake does look more like a jetty rather than a proper road!
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gcranston wrote:
couple of thoughts:
- When do we ever drive within the limits of our headlights!? in order to be able to stop in the distance you can see in headlights (dipped anyway), wouldn't you have to be going about 10mph? Usually you rely on there being nothing unlit in the darkness ahead of you.

The wording I used was "I drive within the limit of my view range" - if dipped headlights only give that range relevant to 10mph (e.g. thick fog?) then I drive at 10mph. It is madness to do any other - the same madness as closing one's eyes and running across a busy road or through a shopping mall - if we cannot see where we are going, we shouldn't go!! Try it - put on a blindfold and run to your local shop. Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gcranston wrote:
.. in order to be able to stop in the distance you can see in headlights (dipped anyway), wouldn't you have to be going about 10mph? Usually you rely on there being nothing unlit in the darkness ahead of you.
Surely your dipped headlights extend to at least 45 feet, giving a speed for stopping of at least 30mph. Apart from that, if you are on dipped, surely there is something coming the othe way, or the visibility is good anyway?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, looks like teleatlas have updated this relatively quickly: http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/mapfeedback/ReportStatus/72de2157-2271-102e-ba61-cfd4ba279577/en

Although the map image shown is still incorrect... :/

My email said: "Thank you for contacting Tele Atlas. Based on a review of your report, we can now confirm that the change you suggested has been made. It will go out in the next release of our map database. This report is now closed."

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MaFt wrote:
well, looks like teleatlas have updated this relatively quickly: http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/mapfeedback/ReportStatus/72de2157-2271-102e-ba61-cfd4ba279577/en

Although the map image shown is still incorrect... :/

My email said: "Thank you for contacting Tele Atlas. Based on a review of your report, we can now confirm that the change you suggested has been made. It will go out in the next release of our map database. This report is now closed."

MaFt


They never did reply to any of my emails. I don't think they realise what has happened there! Although google has updated their maps the show those roads hashed out.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

indeed - which uses TeleAtlas maps, so perhaps the map image shown on the report page shows 'what we reported as being wrong' as oppose to 'what it now looks like on the maps'

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