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2008-08-16 , 01:08
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#21
Originally Posted by rdcinhou View Post
I too think that the Wayfinder Maps application is way over-priced for the quality.

In three spots in Texas (Houston, San Antonio and College Station) there were bad street errors (mispellings, wrong connectivity, wrong names).

Even worse is that their maps show streets that aren't really streets. It showed a quarter-mile long drive onto our farm in Marlin, Texas (on private property!) as an unlabled road!

Since the US map takes 6+ hours to download for an update during which time you cannot use the device, it makes the prospect of getting meaningful updates nil.

I'd rather buy a mainstream GPS than get half-fast software that is overly expensive.
You can download these maps using e.g. wget.
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2008-08-16 , 12:00
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#22
there is a british female voice for wayfinder...Carinna Du Plessis
You're obviously not British;-)

She is South African and uses different terminology from English. For example, she calls a 'roundabout' a 'road circle'. She also has a heavy accent. An American voice is just as British in that case, 'rotary' and all.

As I said, there is no British female voice.
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#23
Originally Posted by lemmy View Post
You're obviously not British;-)

She is South African and uses different terminology from English. For example, she calls a 'roundabout' a 'road circle'. She also has a heavy accent. An American voice is just as British in that case, 'rotary' and all.

As I said, there is no British female voice.
Agreed. Her accent and terminology aren't British. Thats why I chose Sara. The Dutch Zita also has a distinctive accent. Not suitable for me.
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2008-08-16 , 20:09
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
See also /usr/share/navicore/*.zip
Blimey, that's interesting. /usr/libexec/navicore-navigator contains a lot of code, but it mostly seems to be setup/licencing etc. Unfortunately, just changing a single word doesn't seem to work as well as it used to: I think the map data is tied somehow a lot more closely into the contents of that binary.

The newest version also seems to contain lots of references to "atlantis": I wonder if that's either some internally used JVM or some other part of the cross-platform library.
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Originally Posted by zhbrass View Post
Hey all, I've been a tablet user for about 4 months and I frequently experience what can only be described at GPS envy. That is to say, whenever I see a friend with a GPS device, I marvel at how they payed a fraction of what I payed for my n810 but get directions for free that don't require an internet connection. Gee, what a revolutionary idea, Wayfinder! The only thing the other guys charge extra for is traffic.

So my idea? Send a petition over to the folks at Wayfinder to create an update that allows free turn by turn navigation. I mean, virtually every tablet user visits ITT, so getting users to sign wouldn't be hard.

Any thoughts?
OK you get envy because they have a GPS that was cheaper then your N810 well I get asked about 1000 questions when I wipe out me n810. I mean can there $150 gps play games, surf the web have a web cam? Need I go on?
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2008-08-17 , 20:37
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Blimey, that's interesting. /usr/libexec/navicore-navigator contains a lot of code, but it mostly seems to be setup/licencing etc. Unfortunately, just changing a single word doesn't seem to work as well as it used to: I think the map data is tied somehow a lot more closely into the contents of that binary.

The newest version also seems to contain lots of references to "atlantis": I wonder if that's either some internally used JVM or some other part of the cross-platform library.

I believe "Atlantis" is the what it names which ever Map DB you chose as default.

In any event, a real shortcoming Wayfinder has for some is the lack of customization. Which is ironic considering the open source nature of the device that it is running on...

Conversely, I have always been able to add my own voices, start-up/shut down screens, change the menu order, and even use my own car icon no matter if TomTom was running on A WinMo PDA, Palm, or its own PND.

What has been most disappointing to me having used Navicore/Wayfinder since day 1 on my N800 is their lack of community presence and dismal on-line support.
 
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I think Atlantis is the default map when you have no maps installed, i.e. the empty map.
 
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2008-08-18 , 06:57
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I can't really say that wayfinder is so bad that it requires a petition. My old Garmin iQue was definitely better in many respects, but I have been using wayfinder to drive around for the past months, and found it quite usable (German and French maps). Maps have some errors, but this is also the case for other GPS devices I have tried. The voice direction is quite usable. The on-screen indications are quite good.

To the original posters: routing will require an internet connection if you want traffic data. Maybe that is your problem?

I did not realise that "Carina Du Plessis" was from South Africa (never been there). I wondered why she called "roundabouts" "traffic circles"...
 
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How are the voices done in Wayfinder? In TomTom they are just a set of ogg/vorbis files with recorded phrases. Record your own, and with a bit of fiddling you can have e.g. your spouse telling you when to turn.
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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
with a bit of fiddling you can have e.g. your spouse telling you when to turn.
Are you nuts? With a LOT of fiddling I've finally got my spouse to leave the navigation to the machine!
 

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