[time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a little slack

[William H. Fite]

Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base.  GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand
brushoff as "shoddy work."

Can you have a product of this size and complexity that is completely error
free.  No.  No matter how hard you try, the answer remains...no.
(References on stochastic processes available on request.)

Can you have a product with* fewer* errors?  Of course.  Can you have it for
eighty bucks.  Nope.

Be a good capitalist and take your choice.





On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Richard W. Solomon <w1ksz at earthlink.net>wrote:

> I could not disagree with you more ... it is this acceptance
> of shoddy work and product that is leading us down the road
> to ruin.
> My Garmin tells me to take a right to get to my house when in
> fact I should go left. How simple is it to tell right from left.
>
> For the price they charge, I can almost buy a new GPS and maybe
> it's priced that way for just that reason.
>
> If you look at Amazon reviews on Garmin and TomTom, you get the
> same complaints.
>
> Maybe, someday, someone new will come down the pike and offer a
> reliable product at a fair price, just as soon as Dorothy leaves
> OZ !!
>
>               -End of Rant-
>
> 73 es HNY, Dick, W1KSZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "William H. Fite" <omniryx at gmail.com>
> >Sent: Dec 31, 2010 9:18 AM
> >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <
> time-nuts at febo.com>
> >Subject: [time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a
> little slack
> >
> >Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack.  When you consider
> >that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere
> for
> >eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss the
> exact
> >location of my little bungalow by a couple of hundred feet.  After all,
> >we're not talking about GPS error here, but address designation.  And
> there
> >are quite a few little bungalows in all of North America...
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >
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