enter address while moving
Sat, 01/17/2009 - 12:39am
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15 years
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the first time i used my garmin 350 it let me drive by the address. does it matter if you are moving when you enter the address?
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15 years
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the first time i used my garmin 350 it let me drive by the address. does it matter if you are moving when you enter the address?
Maps
the first time i used my garmin 350 it let me drive by the address. does it matter if you are moving when you enter the address?
If you are saying that it thought the destination address was farther down the road than it really was, that is the nature of address estimation built into the maps. Often asked question here, but nothing that will improve things. Of course you can always save the actual location so that subsequent trips will take you to the right place.
Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.
No It shouldn't matter if you are moving...
the first time i used my garmin 350 it let me drive by the address. does it matter if you are moving when you enter the address?
But there could be and probably is a safety issue involved if you are trying to enter addresses into your gpsr while driving....
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the first time i used my garmin 350 it let me drive by the address. does it matter if you are moving when you enter the address?
But there could be and probably is a safety issue involved if you are trying to enter addresses into your gpsr while driving....
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"You can't get there from here"
I recommend you pull your
I recommend you pull your car over to the curb, kill the engine and then enter your co-ordinates.
Unless he's doing it as a
Unless he's doing it as a passenger...
Rick - Nüvi 260 - eTrex Summit HC
The GPS Best Guess Theory
the first time i used my garmin 350 it let me drive by the address. does it matter if you are moving when you enter the address?
Hey Carla,
You probably figured you'd be a little bloodied by suggesting you were 'entering data while driving' (whether you were or not). You'd be amazed how far you can travel while your attention is diverted from the road.
The direct answer to your question is no, moving or not doesn't matter. GPS' use an algorhythm that 'estimates' what an address should be based on where a building is in a block. Unfortunately it doesn't necessarily know whether the addresses start at 1 or 20 so consider the information you get as an 'educated guess.' My Garmin thinks I live several houses away.
So, unless you've been someplace before and actually asked your GPS to save that exact location or the building is one of the millions of POI's already in or added to your machine you'll need to run some interference once the GPS tells you the target is approaching. It may even give you the wrong side of the street.
Cheers
Garmin GPS III, GPS V, StreetPilot 2610, Mobile 10, Nuvi 660, Nuvi 760
Power outlet type
...kill the engine and then...
Unless the power outlet is switched (like a Toyota).
nüvi 750 & 760
And why...
...kill the engine and then...
Unless the power outlet is switched (like a Toyota).
And why kill the engine anyway? As long as one is parked, what difference if the engine is running or not?
Rick - Nüvi 260 - eTrex Summit HC
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And why kill the engine anyway? As long as one is parked, what difference if the engine is running or not?
Environment? Wasting Fuel, etc.......
Sounds like Microsoft Sync
I recommend you pull your car over to the curb, kill the engine and then enter your co-ordinates.
Remember the Ford ads for their cars with Microsoft Sync? I test drove one last spring with the car salesman riding shotgun. Got stuck in a software menu and could not figure out how to get back to the main menu. The salesman had me pull over and shut the car off and restart it. And we thought all those Microsoft jokes of "If Microsoft built..." were just that - only jokes! NOT!