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2TURBOS
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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject: Safety camera overlay for New Zealand maps? |
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Just wondering if anyone out there does a Speed camera or other POI overlay that you can add to the Navman map of NZ?
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Skippy
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Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Safety camera overlay for New Zealand maps? |
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| 2TURBOS wrote: | | Just wondering if anyone out there does a Speed camera or other POI overlay that you can add to the Navman map of NZ? |
Hello and 
Last time I was in NZ, there were only a few dozen fixed speed cameras, are there more now? You can find the locations of the cameras on the net and it wouldn't be too hard to mark their positions.
I don't think the fixed speed cameras are such a problem though, it's the cleverly hidden mobile cameras and unmarked police patrols which are the ones to watch out for. :x
You might be better to get a good RADAR detector, but be aware that the police have copped on to this now and switch their RADAR off so they are very difficult to detect.
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nickywicky
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: Safety camera overlay for New Zealand maps? |
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| Skippy wrote: | | 2TURBOS wrote: | | Just wondering if anyone out there does a Speed camera or other POI overlay that you can add to the Navman map of NZ? |
Hello and
Last time I was in NZ, there were only a few dozen fixed speed cameras, are there more now? You can find the locations of the cameras on the net and it wouldn't be too hard to mark their positions.
I don't think the fixed speed cameras are such a problem though, it's the cleverly hidden mobile cameras and unmarked police patrols which are the ones to watch out for. :x
You might be better to get a good RADAR detector, but be aware that the police have copped on to this now and switch their RADAR off so they are very difficult to detect. |
This is very interesting to me because I'm a complete newbie and trying to decide between NAVMAN and Goldfinger (only options for NZ). One of the advantages of Goldfinger is that it has the POI's of all the fixed speed cameras.
I have just found a file with all the list of the fixed speed cameras for New Zealand. There were only about 50. They all had GPS co-ordinates (like S 36.80911 E 174.70831). So is it possible with the NAVMAN system to create your own POI's with this information ? If so I'll go for NAVMAN straight away as 50 odd entries wouldn't take long. |
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2TURBOS
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, Also interested... But sadly don't know the answer!
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nickywicky
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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I have just created a POI file of NZ fixed speed cameras suitable
for NAVMAN.
What I did was download the Ausi version of the same thing to see what the file looked like. It was just a text file with the coordinates on each line.
I had all the info (bar 3 cameras) on all the NZ fixed speed cameras, and went through line by line editing the NZ data in.
I'm such a newbie though I don't even have NAVMAN yet. ( But will be ordering it from somewhere soon. ) So 2Turbos, do you want to try out this POI speed camera overlay ? ( I presume you are in NZ somewhere.)
(not sure how to upload files to a forum ?) |
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2TURBOS
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Love to try it out!
If you want pm me & then you could just e-mail them.
Regards,
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