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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:44 am    Post subject: Can someone confirm possible Sygic bug? Reply with quote

Hi

If you have Sygic (Europe), could you check something for me please? I naturally have my regional settings set to miles, but when I do Navigate then Favourites, my favourites are listed showing distance in kilometers. Does anybody else see that?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I noticed this yesterday.

I must compile a list of these minor bugs to send to Sygic.

For example "Go straight over the roundabout 3rd exit" when it should be go "Go right at the roundabout 3rd exit".

Then there is "Turn slightly left" at a right angled bend. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

3GGG wrote:

For example "Go straight over the roundabout 3rd exit" when it should be go "Go right at the roundabout 3rd exit".

Then there is "Turn slightly left" at a right angled bend. Laughing

I suspect this is more to do with the embedded map information rather tham the software. Is it IGO based software? Igo S/W tends to do this.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks 3GGG for confirmig this.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:36 am    Post subject: Re: Can someone confirm possible Sygic bug? Reply with quote

alan_dr wrote:
Hi

If you have Sygic (Europe), could you check something for me please? I naturally have my regional settings set to miles, but when I do Navigate then Favourites, my favourites are listed showing distance in kilometers. Does anybody else see that?

Thanks.




Its the same on GB/IRL maps version
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

3GGG wrote:
For example "Go straight over the roundabout 3rd exit" when it should be go "Go right at the roundabout 3rd exit".

Then there is "Turn slightly left" at a right angled bend. Laughing
This seems to happen with all satnavs (differently). It's the old problem of telling a computer how to speak, it does exactly what you tell it and occasionally gives strange results. I've found similar odd instructions from TomTom, McGuider and Garmin (at the same junctions) - "Bear right", "Turn right", "Sharp right". The best result is "Cross the roundabout, third exit" (or first, second, fourth, fifth).

Road numbers are a frequent cause for this sort of oddity - A1, A100, A1000, A12, A123, A1234 - how to pronounce each? Where do you put an "and"? Should you put in an "and"? "A one thousand and two hundred and thirty four" or "A one two three four"? "A one hundred", "A one zero, zero", "A one hundred and twenty three", "A one two three".

The programmers really can't win.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:

Road numbers are a frequent cause for this sort of oddity - A1, A100, A1000, A12, A123, A1234 - how to pronounce each? Where do you put an "and"? Should you put in an "and"? "A one thousand and two hundred and thirty four" or "A one two three four"? "A one hundred", "A one zero, zero", "A one hundred and twenty three", "A one two three".

The programmers really can't win.

There is some logic to it which programmers could easily use. If the numeric part is less than or equal to 100 we usually say it as a number e.g. M twenty-five. Greater than 100 we usually say each digit e.g. A one two three four.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The difficulty lies in "usually".

A two, zero, zero?
B four, zero, zero, zero?

I fancy a bunch of "equal to" statements? Good fun thinking about it, though! Laughing

Incidentally, I've even heard one BBC Radio Four traffic reporter say something like "A eleven forty four" and "A double one double four". Winds me up no end!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arrow If <100 say the number
Arrow If ends in 000, say the first number then "thousand"
Arrow If ends in 00, say (the first one/two numbers as a number) then "hundred"
Arrow Anything else, quote each number separately.
Simples. Smile

The TomToms show user-inputted road speeds as a conversion from mph to km/h and then back again so can be off by one from what you typed in. They all seem to have their quirks. Crying or Very sad

PS TomTom, motorway junctions numbers ending in an "A" should be pronounced "aye" just like the A at the start of an "A road" number. Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't programming fun!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is another bug in Sygic when using Custom POI's on the device and the Warn hen Near POI function. Set up the warn when near option then go back to the same category, answer no to the question about removing the warning and the software decrements the warning distance by one yard every time you answer no - Seen exactly the same bug in TomTom software a few years ago which seems a little strange - Mike
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GerryC wrote:
Arrow If <100 say the number
Arrow If ends in 000, say the first number then "thousand"
Arrow If ends in 00, say (the first one/two numbers as a number) then "hundred"
Arrow Anything else, quote each number separately.
Simples. Smile
Might you want to Arrow count how many digits there are in the number first? (A1000 = A ten hundred?) (I never did programming - did you guess?). Laughing

Don't you just hate it when hens get near your POIs?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:
Might you want to Arrow count how many digits there are in the number first? (A1000 = A ten hundred?) (I never did programming - did you guess?). Laughing

The idea would be to check them in order. In this case, #2 would match (*000) so you would get "A-one-thousand".

It gets more complicated when you get to numbers ending a zero - should you say "A-one-twenty" or "A-one-two-oh"? Then what to do with 4 digits! I've done prgramming. Very Happy

DennisN wrote:
Don't you just hate it when hens get near your POIs?

Huh? Confused
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GerryC wrote:
DennisN wrote:
Don't you just hate it when hens get near your POIs?

Huh? Confused


Keep up lad!! Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil
Mikealder wrote:
the Warn hen Near POI function.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DennisN wrote:
Keep up lad!! Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil

Best I could find was... Burn In Hell

Cheers!
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