Sunday, Aug 24, 2003 at 13:12
BurnieM
You want some more info on the lagging problem with DiscoverAus?? Where do I start! I will give you a quick run down.
1. Using the recommended region size and shapes on GPSOZ (the original one dated early July), a severe lag was experienced. ie the cursor on the gps was about 10 to 15 seconds behind where you actually were on the road. When you stopped at the lights, the gps cursor would still be about 500-800 meters back and saying you were doing 60km per hour!!
2. It has nothing to do with the firmware version, basemap version, SD card brand, or SD card size.
3. Early on some people were not experiencing this problem, but slowly more and more people are "coming out".
4. Magellan in WA have been made aware of this problem and have referred it to the USA (Thales) as Thales created the product. Someone from Aus contacted Thales asking them what they are doing about it and got a response saying that Thales do not support the Aus product - catch 22.
5. I have personally got over the problem by changing the shape of the regions and making them slightly smaller than the max. 16mb each.
6. There are still people experimenting with sizes and shapes.
7. There are also people who insist that they should be able to load the whole of the DiscoverAus as one file so that they do not have to change files when travelling. This was possible with MapSend.
Hope this gives you some idea of what is going on. It has now been nearly two months since it was discovered and as far as I know DiscoverAus is still being sold by Magellan.
Peter
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