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Chris_UK Occasional Visitor

Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 35
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:35 am Post subject: Cyclops Database |
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Anyone have any info on how good the Garmin Cyclops database is? |
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Darren Frequent Visitor

Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:28 am Post subject: |
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It's not bad but we do have users here who subscribed to it on their Garmin device and found ours more accurate.
Of course to be entirely fair, I'll leave others to comment as I'm biased! _________________ Darren Griffin |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff


Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15356 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: |
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i have used both pgpsw and cyclops (via garmin) - i found the cyclops to be quite out of date.
a friend of mine also has a cyclops camera detector (not a sat nav, just the 'detector' itself) and he moans about cameras not being on there for aaaaages! even when he reported them to him. apparently cyclops get their data from RAC drivers so presumeably places in the sticks where no one breaks down (like ogden partway between halifax and thornton) dont get many cars breaking down and hence no RAC coverage. the result: cyclops didn;t have the gatso's on that road in their database for about 2 years after they were installed - and then i believe it was only from my mate emailing them numerous times to add them!!
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Chris_UK Occasional Visitor

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: Cyclops |
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racman Lifetime Member

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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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i am a rac driver and we do not give camera locations to cyclops.i use yours |
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Darren Frequent Visitor

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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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racman wrote: | i am a rac driver and we do not give camera locations to cyclops.i use yours |
Very interesting, although I can't find anything in print, Cyclops always claimed their data came from a partnership with the RAC and it's Recovery Service Teams  _________________ Darren Griffin |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff


Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15356 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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racman wrote: | i am a rac driver and we do not give camera locations to cyclops.i use yours |
hmmm... i retract my statement then! thanks for the clarification!
@Darren: all i could find in 'that' communication with Cyclops was mention of 'verified by our field engineers'...
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