Bradford R. Crain wrote: > There's an interesting letter to the editor in the Sunday Oregonian > newspaper (12/06/09). It seems there is a GPS product out there made > by Garmin which directs people onto a roadway which actually turns out > to be the letter writer's driveway. So many befuddled drivers have turned > up at the house that the owner wants to put up a solidly built gate across > the driveway, to the tune of about $1000, and wants Garmin to pay for it. > But Garmin claims that the mistake belongs to Navtec, and Navtec isn't > returning calls from reporters or the irate land owner. > > I look forward to reading the next chapter of this story in our > newspaper. I saw that, also. I bet Garmin's lawyers and Navtec's lawyers are gonna need some Pepto Bismol before this is over. Guy with the driveway needs a pit bull, I suppsoe (grin). Similar vein: a year ago or so Garmin retracted a charting SW product (series of charts, IIRC) because of sizable errors on some of the charts. I believe a 100-ton-ish vessel ran aground where the electronic chart said there was a fairway. And, paddling close in on the outside of Gibraltor in the Broken Group, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, I noticed a couple of the isolated rocks weer mischarted by a hundred feet or more. Not an issue in a sea kayak, but a major problem in a motor cruiser. Must be some sort of disclaimer on limits to the resolution on those products. On my power boat's "plotter," a Garmin 198C (4-inch screen; not really a plotter), the unit tells you when you have "over zoomed," which equates to showing detail beyond the reliability of the chart. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Dec 06 2009 - 13:07:18 PST
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