Mileage off
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 8:41pm
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 15 years
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Am I the only one that's noticed that the mileage (well at least my) c340 tells me a poi is away is way off of what it winds up being?
IE: Under my Favorites folder it may say my destination is 190 miles away but if I forward through the directions it's almost 250 miles away. Did some other of my favorites/pois and found that in the folders it shows about 20% fewer miles on all the locations.
Is this normal? Why such a big difference. I can see it being different but 20%!!! Seems a little excessive doesn't it?
Thanks for your time.
Mileage Off
Before a route is calculated, the GPS shows you the "as the crow flies" distance. Once you select the destination, it then calculates the actual driving distance.
Duh!
Yeah, now that you say it and I think about it that makes perfect sense. So then why doesn't the DOT make roads as the crow flies?
Would make the trip so much quicker.
Brian Garmin nuvi 255W
that'd be good but
So then why doesn't the DOT make roads as the crow flies?
Would make the trip so much quicker.
Can you imagine the costs and time it would take to pave everything in a straight line? Going through mountins, cutting down trees after trees, building more and longer bridges over water? It's economical to just go around obstacles and pave roads where it isn't so much of a hassel.
Mike
Full employment and gas savings?
This could be bigger than the CCC program under FDR! And to be a no-bid contractor when it gears up...
We could save gas with all the straight roads, assuming we make them level at the same time. Also could drop a train track along side so we could ship coal and corn around quicker.
It's an election year. Dumber things have been proposed to get votes.
Larry ... Garmin Nuvi 650
For your consideration...
What say we just bulldoze the whole country, use the mountains to fill the canyons and turn it into a big parking lot. Thus everywhere would be as the crow flies.
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Brian Garmin nuvi 255W
Crow Flies
Can you imagine the costs and time it would take to pave everything in a straight line? Going through mountins, cutting down trees after trees, building more and longer bridges over water?
If this could be true, there will less lawns to mow
Allan Barnett - Garmin nüvi 885T/765T/Pharos GPS (bluetooth) w/MS Maps on PPC
Straight roads would be
Straight roads would be dangerous, lulling us to sleep. I understand that roads are sometimes intentionally designed with curves to make them more interesting and safer. Can anyone verify this?
Garmin nuvi 260w, iPod, Hyundai Genesis, Macintosh
Still waiting.......
Roads? Why roads? I'm still waiting for my atomic powered flying car that never needs to be refueled and can take me anywhere I tell it to go without anybody having to pay attention to the controls. Every destination would be "as the crow files".
What the heck? It's freaking 2008. It's the future. This stuff was supposed to be here already.........
GPSMAP 76CSx - nüvi 760 - nüvi 200 - GPSMAP 78S
The Romans disagreed with you, Mike
So then why doesn't the DOT make roads as the crow flies?
Would make the trip so much quicker.
Can you imagine the costs and time it would take to pave everything in a straight line? Going through mountins, cutting down trees after trees, building more and longer bridges over water? It's economical to just go around obstacles and pave roads where it isn't so much of a hassel.
Dear Mike,
There is no need to employ imagination. The Romans built straight roads and it allowed them to move troops more quickly.
http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/inv_roads.htm
The Romans concluded that it was a good investment. It has allowed some modern highways the benefit of that approach.
david
nüvi 1490T, V1, Sanyo PRO-700a, maps, sunglasses, hot co-pilot, the open road
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Drive through the Midwest. The monotony of the straight roads with miles and miles of corn fields and you'll pray for a hill to drive over.
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