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holden_frost · 10-22-2002, 06:57 PM

Here's my experience with MS Streets and using it with any receiver--it's flaky. Sometimes with my receiver it hangs on "initializing". Sometimes it gets a location. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason as to when it does or doesn't work. If anyone else has any experience, please let me know.

I took a 6 hour trip last Friday. When I first fired up MS Streets, it hung on initializing--that's after I go to Tools and select GPS track position. Then later after refueling a ways away it plotted my position and seemed to work (tracked position). Then later it hung on initializing and then later it seemed to work again. My question is really, if MS Streets is talking to the receiver, and the receiver actually can't get a satellite signal, does MS Streets know how to tell that to me, or does it always live in some GPS limbo where I MAY have a signal, but MS Streets won't tell me where I am for some unknown reason (which is what the experiment above seems to indicate) or is MS Streets is talking to the GPS but has no signal--if I wrote that software, I'd have this be one of the messages--"I can talk to your GPS, but it doesn't have a satellite signal"?

10-22-2002, 06:57 PM	#15
holden_frost Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Albany Posts: 23	MS Streets Update Here's my experience with MS Streets and using it with any receiver--it's flaky. Sometimes with my receiver it hangs on "initializing". Sometimes it gets a location. I can't figure out any rhyme or reason as to when it does or doesn't work. If anyone else has any experience, please let me know. I took a 6 hour trip last Friday. When I first fired up MS Streets, it hung on initializing--that's after I go to Tools and select GPS track position. Then later after refueling a ways away it plotted my position and seemed to work (tracked position). Then later it hung on initializing and then later it seemed to work again. My question is really, if MS Streets is talking to the receiver, and the receiver actually can't get a satellite signal, does MS Streets know how to tell that to me, or does it always live in some GPS limbo where I MAY have a signal, but MS Streets won't tell me where I am for some unknown reason (which is what the experiment above seems to indicate) or is MS Streets is talking to the GPS but has no signal--if I wrote that software, I'd have this be one of the messages--"I can talk to your GPS, but it doesn't have a satellite signal"? __________________ 1996 Subaru Legacy GT 2.5L/Windows 98SE/Shuttle FV25 1000MHz/256M RAM/40G MP3s/DS Customs 5.6" LCD in-dash display/Deluo GPS/MS Streets/IR Rearview cam