Satnav problems the other night
 

On (I think) Thursday night, my Tomtom had my position wrong for ten or
twenty minutes. As I drove eastward across North London, the Tomtom seemed
to be following a track of roughly similar shape about 4.5km to the south.
Fortunately I knew exactly where I was going anyway! Did anyone else
experience any problems?

Satnav problems the other night
 

John Rowland ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

On (I think) Thursday night, my Tomtom had my position wrong for ten
or twenty minutes. As I drove eastward across North London, the Tomtom
seemed to be following a track of roughly similar shape about 4.5km to
the south. Fortunately I knew exactly where I was going anyway! Did
anyone else experience any problems?

Roll on GPS road pricing and speed limit enforcement, eh...?

Satnav problems the other night
 

Adrian wrote:
John Rowland ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

On (I think) Thursday night, my Tomtom had my position wrong for ten
or twenty minutes. As I drove eastward across North London, the
Tomtom seemed to be following a track of roughly similar shape about
4.5km to the south. Fortunately I knew exactly where I was going
anyway! Did anyone else experience any problems?

Roll on GPS road pricing and speed limit enforcement, eh...?

No probs - they'll just add a find for driving through fields and peoples
gardens, if the mapping data is anything like TomToms!

Satnav problems the other night
 

cupra wrote:
Adrian wrote:
John Rowland ) gurgled
happily, sounding much like they were saying :

On (I think) Thursday night, my Tomtom had my position wrong for ten
or twenty minutes. As I drove eastward across North London, the
Tomtom seemed to be following a track of roughly similar shape about
4.5km to the south. Fortunately I knew exactly where I was going
anyway! Did anyone else experience any problems?

Roll on GPS road pricing and speed limit enforcement, eh...?

No probs - they'll just add a find for driving through fields and
peoples gardens, if the mapping data is anything like TomToms!

D'oh... 'fine' not 'find'!

Satnav problems the other night
 

On 04 Sep 2006 12:21:55 GMT, Adrian wrote:

Roll on GPS road pricing and speed limit enforcement, eh...?

Such systems will most likely be using the Galileo positioning system which
will be much more accurate and under European control. Only four years
away...

--
jhk

Satnav problems the other night
 

Jarle H Knudsen ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Roll on GPS road pricing and speed limit enforcement, eh...?

Such systems will most likely be using the Galileo positioning system
which will be much more accurate and under European control. Only four
years away...

The full deployment starts in 2008 - IF the in-orbit validation all goes
smoothly...

But, hey, the validation is currently only a mere 40% over budget, with the
second test satellite being at least eight months late to launch -
currently scheduled for December, instead of Spring this year...

Then the validation will be one whole third of the way through...