Garmin Streetpilot i3 - Software Enhancement Requests

pauljmuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 59

I personally am happy using an Excel CSV file, and something like streetmap.co.uk to get long and lats - I use it to upload my work destinations, which due to my job, tend to be in the middle of knowhere... (Certainly without postcodes, mostly)

My main gripes are not being able to back up POI's I load on the move, or the ability to do a proper postcode search for properties that have no number - like my work.

If I put work postcode on the royal mail site - it gives my my work as an option - not a 0 through to 9 option. COme on Garmin!
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gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

Street map. co.uk doesn't even have my house on it its been buit 3 years now. multimap is better but google maps looks like it will be the best when the UK data is all in there. (its still beta)

Try geocoder.us and the excelent geocoder.ca , we need something like geocoder.ca for the uk but the google maps long , lat for the uk are not accurate enough yet.

Using multimap you only get long lat to the nearest 100 meter square.

Read up on geocoders, its all interesting stuff, if you can white php you can probably write one to batch process loads of addresses through google maps. Trouble is as I said the UK data is not good enough yet. Give it 6 months though.

With regard to the topic - I atempted to start a link concening extracting favourites from an I3 with regard to producing speed camera data bases or exporting your favourites address list to share with a coleage or member of family. Have a look what I said there "Extracing POIs from Garmin I3"

I now understand if you have the Full CD like you get with an C330 you can use that software to extract your favourites.

If you visit a relation or spot a new speed camera you can , save the point as a favourite easily in a second. What you need is to be able to extract and save this info. 1) for backup and 2 to share. The long lat coordinated you will get from the Garmin S/W or from holding down wheel on your Garmin are 10 times more accurate than what comes from street map or multimap.

Thomas_Quest · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject:

dougconran · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

dougconran · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

I forgot to say that I'm on v2.5 - does anyone know whether it is different in 2.6? (I suppose I could install v2.6 but 2.5 works for me (apart from the above) and I'm reluctant to change something that ain't broke.

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

Dont think the I3 is as accurate as you think, MaFt.

Remember it can take 15 minutes to find where it is first time you turn it on.

From what I understand about GPS technology. A GPS unit is much better at realising how far it has travelled and in which direction than exactly where it is.

The I3 will take a fix aproximately once every second (I think).
I am pretty sure it will compare its guess at where it is with its maps and assume you are on a road if you are anywhere near one.

I find that after having made several turns in an area on mapped roads the I3 is extremely accurate.
Just after pulling off the supermarket carpark however, i.e. an unmapped area, the I3 will have lost some of its accuracy until I reach the next junction.

Does this make sense?

HySeeker · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

HySeeker · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject:

My bit on the wish list - I would like to know when the unit has got Differential lock from the WAAS/EGNOS system.
Possibly just a change of colour on the signal stregth display. Idea

zogman · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:35 am Post subject:

HySeeker · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:56 am Post subject:

PeeBee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 03, 2005 Posts: 12

It's not often that I travel to other countries and I woul dguess I am not too unusual in this and so to have to select country before entering address details is a bit of a pain (just a bit though). Perhaps the unit could assume your last selected county when asking for address and either have that pre-selected, or not ask you but have some way of changing country if you need to.

Given that european maps are abreviated (as I understand) why not put the UK countries at the top of the list?

PB

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

Ash10 · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Feb 19, 2005 Posts: 478

I've had my StreetPilot i3 for a couple of days now, and I have to say that I am seriously impressed! 8)

A few things that I have noticed, however:

1. No way to download user-defined POI, only upload them.

2. Can't clear the "Recent Finds" list.

3. Required to enter the space in postcodes.

4. Could do with a counterpart application on the PC, to remotely configure the i3 and to save/load configuration profiles.

If there's a Win32 API or SDK available, I'd be more than happy to have a go at a few of these myself... :D

As a sidenote, I didn't get a software CD with my i3 - although the box says it contains one. Not really a problem as I've downloaded all the necessary from Garmin, just wondering if I've been short-changed!?

PeeBee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 03, 2005 Posts: 12

I bought my i3 from Comet and it came with an e-mail to store managers stuck to the box saying that a batch of units had been delivered without the CD but these would be sent on in due course (not clear if this would be Comet sending them on or Garmin).

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