Garmin Streetpilot i3 - Software Enhancement Requests

ASHERS · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 25, 2005 Posts: 6

I think it would useful (and I would have thought quite a simple change) to be have the ability to display your current location as lat/long. You could then use this to add exact locations e.g. new safety cameras to your own custom poi files or submit to pocketgps for inclusion in theirs.

MaFt · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

zogman · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject:

how about being able to load different direction 'voices' like you can on tom toms...something like ozy osbourne telling you to 'turn f***ing right' at the next roundabout..(maybe not so severe as ozy.)
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Trajet · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

Cuppa · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject:

antwalsh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 3

I would like to see the unit automatically start at Map View when the unit is powered rather than have to press a button to get off the menu.

I also like the feature of TomTom whereby the map switches to a direction arrow and speedo when a certain speed is reached.

Cuppa · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:58 am Post subject:

andybike · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:

i'm a newbie and i have a few idea's.

howabout an earphone socket,a 1'' socket/ball adapter for use with ram mounts and a waterproof case as the i3 is popular with bikers who want a gps satnav on a tight budget

blackrat62 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 08, 2005 Posts: 47

Tried the detour mode today - don't bother.

Travelling on M3 towards M25 (next junction), pressed 'detour' - routed me onto M25 to next exit, back again to rejoin M3 at the same point I exited.

Applying logic here - I have asked to detour - if the jam is before the next exit then I can't detour (too late) - it seems sensible to asume jam is after next exit, or detour is useless - so why get you to exit then rejoin at the same junction?

I think the i3 should assume the jam is after the next exit and calculate accordingly - if its before the next exit its too late!

There were several options it could have used so it isn't that it had no choice.

REQUEST - MAKE DETOUR ASSUME JAM IS AFTER NEXT JUNCTION (IT DOESN'T NOW) OR IT IS POINTLESS!

dougconran · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:11 am Post subject:

Another request (so that we don't have to commit piracy, Garmin Wink

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Can we have some means of being able to get POIs out of the i3.

Doug

zogman · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:16 am Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Detour

zogman · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:28 am Post subject:

MaFt...good idea mate but would'nt just be as easy to get off the motorway for instance and head in the general direction of your destination and let the i3 recalculate you back on route...it would be pot luck if the i3 takes you back onto the m/way past the jam or right back into it ,just further down the road and could we put up with the i3 saying 'recalculating' all the time.... ...
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pauljmuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 59

That was going to be my suggestion Zogman - I did just that the other day (not on a MWay though)

I could tell it was taking me back on a loop to the same road, so I simply took first available turn off in the "general" direction, and it got me there, avoided the jam, bang on time.

We've actually had some fun with the Garmin, just taking an alternative to the route - seeing parts of my local area I've never been to!

MaFt · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

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