A few Destinator questions... - Page 2

Lum · 04-03-2006, 04:10 PM

Simply having tyres that are close to the legal minimum tread depth will increase your speedo readings by a few MPH as you are covering less distance for every rotation of the driveshaft. Car speedos are never accurate and as has already been stated in many parts of the world the law forces or encourages them to overread. Therefore a GPS speedo is a nice thing to have.

While we're at it, can we have an option to make CF set the time and date based on the info it collects from GPS. This will mean that when I restore from hibernation and my date is wrong, it will be fixed, then when Destinator makes CF bomb out and I have to restart it while hurtling down the motorway I don't have to worry about setting the date again.

FWIW I do use my satnav most days. I am a field engineer and I cover most of the UK, and while I know the routes from my house to pretty much all of my customers, when it comes to visiting two sites in one day I basically need satnav. I did 600 miles today and used Destinator to get me to my second and third jobs. It performed admirably, apart from one crash which interestingly was on the exact same bit of road as when I was following the same route on friday. I guess it is just new features in PN that D3 doesn't like.

veetid · 04-03-2006, 04:12 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Lum

Simply having tyres that are close to the legal minimum tread depth will increase your speedo readings by a few MPH as you are covering less distance for every rotation of the driveshaft. Car speedos are never accurate and as has already been stated in many parts of the world the law forces or encourages them to overread. Therefore a GPS speedo is a nice thing to have.

While we're at it, can we have an option to make CF set the time and date based on the info it collects from GPS. This will mean that when I restore from hibernation and my date is wrong, it will be fixed, then when Destinator makes CF bomb out and I have to restart it while hurtling down the motorway I don't have to worry about setting the date again.

FWIW I do use my satnav most days. I am a field engineer and I cover most of the UK, and while I know the routes from my house to pretty much all of my customers, when it comes to visiting two sites in one day I basically need satnav. I did 600 miles today and used Destinator to get me to my second and third jobs. It performed admirably, apart from one crash which interestingly was on the exact same bit of road as when I was following the same route on friday. I guess it is just new features in PN that D3 doesn't like.

PN maps will definetly cause problems in my D3, if that is what you are doing... The current 1.6 release is designed for the older D3 maps... This will be changed in the upcoming release...

Why does the date on your computer change?

david

RPM_VR4 · 04-03-2006, 10:57 PM

Yeah dude... my date/time handle hibernation fine. It sounds like you need a new BIOS battery or something.

Eubey · 04-04-2006, 08:51 AM

is there anywhere you can buy the older us maps?

veetid · 04-04-2006, 10:05 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Eubey

is there anywhere you can buy the older us maps?

Just wait... I do not plan to use D3 anymore... I am working with PN right now... There are a few bugs I'm working out with the engineers, but hopefully PN will make it into the upcoming 1.7 release...

david

Eubey · 04-04-2006, 10:13 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

Just wait... I do not plan to use D3 anymore... I am working with PN right now... There are a few bugs I'm working out with the engineers, but hopefully PN will make it into the upcoming 1.7 release...

david

*me pretends to know what PN stands for as to not look like a noob non-searcher and wonders whether this mysterious "PN" has cheaper maps than the destinator ones.

Its good to see something besides destinator. The destinator integrated into cf 1.6 found some wacky ways to get places when i was testing it...

veetid · 04-04-2006, 10:14 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Eubey

*me pretends to know what PN stands for as to not look like a noob non-searcher and wonders whether this mysterious "PN" has cheaper maps than the destinator ones.

Its good to see something besides destinator. The destinator integrated into cf 1.6 found some wacky ways to get places when i was testing it...

PN is basically D5, the new version of Destinator... Destinator 3 is very old and out dated...

david

Eubey · 04-04-2006, 10:15 AM

Cool stuff. Cant wait to see it all in action.

ShawJohn · 04-04-2006, 04:04 PM

a average car with an average 16" wheel on will have its speedo reading vary by at least 4% due to tread wear alone

Speedo is very handy in UK.

Why not have information like this in the black bar along the top.

@ David, you might wanna give Freedrive a whirl just to play with some of the features that people are asking for which are lacking in CF Dest plugin.