[News] Dash, the internet-connected gps

Tim Newsom cephdon at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 16:16:43 CEST 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 6:12, Dean Collins wrote:
> Yep, coding easy to do however issues are-
>
> Mapping of roads and associated speed limits, almost non existent in 
> the
> commercial space let alone in the open source space.
<snip>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Collins
> Cognation Pty Ltd
> dean at cognation.net
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> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>

The last navigation system I had was able to predict how long it would 
take for me to get where I was going over many different 
roads..(highway,streets.. Etc) and then adjust it based on my actual 
speed and the distance remaining.  I think the speed limits are in there 
also for that purpose.
--Tim




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