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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14901 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Clever BBC - they are using the same satnav picture as the Telegraph in the article linked by Mostdom on page 1. _________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
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Bjalf Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Norway
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spook51 Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 548 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:46 am Post subject: |
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DennisN wrote: |
Clever BBC - they are using the same satnav picture as the Telegraph in the article linked by Mostdom on page 1. |
Except the BBC used it two and a half years earlier. |
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gcranston Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 30, 2008 Posts: 24 Location: Sheffield, UK
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14901 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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gcranston wrote: | couple of thoughts:
- When do we ever drive within the limits of our headlights!? in order to be able to stop in the distance you can see in headlights (dipped anyway), wouldn't you have to be going about 10mph? Usually you rely on there being nothing unlit in the darkness ahead of you. |
The wording I used was "I drive within the limit of my view range" - if dipped headlights only give that range relevant to 10mph (e.g. thick fog?) then I drive at 10mph. It is madness to do any other - the same madness as closing one's eyes and running across a busy road or through a shopping mall - if we cannot see where we are going, we shouldn't go!! Try it - put on a blindfold and run to your local shop. _________________ Dennis
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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gcranston wrote: | .. in order to be able to stop in the distance you can see in headlights (dipped anyway), wouldn't you have to be going about 10mph? Usually you rely on there being nothing unlit in the darkness ahead of you. | Surely your dipped headlights extend to at least 45 feet, giving a speed for stopping of at least 30mph. Apart from that, if you are on dipped, surely there is something coming the othe way, or the visibility is good anyway? |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15219 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:20 am Post subject: |
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well, looks like teleatlas have updated this relatively quickly: http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/mapfeedback/ReportStatus/72de2157-2271-102e-ba61-cfd4ba279577/en
Although the map image shown is still incorrect... :/
My email said: "Thank you for contacting Tele Atlas. Based on a review of your report, we can now confirm that the change you suggested has been made. It will go out in the next release of our map database. This report is now closed."
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mostdom Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jul 10, 2006 Posts: 1964 Location: Surrey, UK.
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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They never did reply to any of my emails. I don't think they realise what has happened there! Although google has updated their maps the show those roads hashed out.
Google maps _________________ Dom
HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15219 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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indeed - which uses TeleAtlas maps, so perhaps the map image shown on the report page shows 'what we reported as being wrong' as oppose to 'what it now looks like on the maps'
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