Navman crippling limitations with poi's

ShoxDr · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 31, 2006 Posts: 6

Would it not be better if you could specify the distance.

Problem solved :D

robertn · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 564

Unhban · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 33

I see Flickhammer's gone quiet about the 8 second update of the screen....

dizzyfergy · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

Right, ill tell you how I see it. I have an icn 520 with a 1 gig Kingston 50 x SD card. I have UK and European maps loaded, I also have the latest UK and European speed camera data, as well as a pda hack to run the unit as a simple pda . This then contains all job data i.e. customers addresses, contact names and equipment required. The navman gets me to 99% of destinations with very little trouble and has probably saved me the odd speeding fine and penalty points .The screen is I think well laid out and instructions for me seem very clear, yes the screen refresh can be a bit jerky, but is no where as bad as an 8 second update .So I think I could live with the shi**y nearest poi function which I don’t use anyway .No I don’t work for navman, if anybody asks

darrenwright · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

got to agree with dizyfergy,
my ICN520 has got me to nearly 99% of my delivery points, the only 1% that has let it down is when there has been a new estate built within the last 10 months or so.
I only use the POI's for low bridges as iam an agency driver.
The GPS is only an aid & a good aid at that.

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

8 second refresh rate.... Laughing Out Loud

I'm sure the police would have something to say about watching the screen that much to notice a refresh rate.

FlickHammer · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 26

FlickHammer · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 26

Maybe in the case of poi's a better way to look at them is what "scope" do they need.

If your looking for a car park you want to find one within say 3 miles, same for a post office or petrol station.

If your looking for a speed camera you don't really need to know any further than say 1 mile.

But if your looking for a zoo, the chances are your going to need a scope of say 30-40 miles and most people would be willing to travel that kind of distance.

If the range for poi's were extended to 200 miles its simply wouldn't make the slightest difference to people looking for a car park, you'd still get a list of the closest 99 but for people searching for a beach to visit at least they would have a selection to choose from instead of just being told there are none.

This is not a difficult thing for navman to fix.

Flick
Twisted Evil

TerryWalsh · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

I agree that it would be nice to be able to extend the range for nearest POI's and that it would be an easy fix. I do however place less importance on this, I usually use my ICN520 to find a route to a specific poi, albeit I often click on the map in the area I want to be in, and then find the nearest POI.

Terry Walsh

zzf00l · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 84

jonandmarkuk · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

filgreen · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject:

Strikes me this guy FlickHammer is just a serial ranter (check out his other post-another rant).

Get rid of the Navman if it's so poor and rant on some other forum.

FlickHammer · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 26

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