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ertyu
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 Posted - 02 sept. 2004 : 22:35:47
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From the geocaching forums:
It looks like Ontario was updated some from 04 to S& 05. But I'm not too happy about where they've dropped road names or complete roads in the rest of Canada.
Look at Jasper(AB), Shediac(NB), Lunenburg(NS), Golden(BC) to name a few. These have road names in 04 but 05 they do not.
Roads in other places have be completely dropped, Vermilion is just off the Yellowhead Hwy in Alberta. But now it's roads have all disappeared from S&T05. It also looks like they total dropped Labrador in regards to roads.
Too bad they dropped the parks/green areas shown on the map for cities like Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and Halifax.
I see what you mean. Although Ontario and maybe some other provinces have been improved a lot (including ferries like the Tobermory-Manitoulin one) some provinces seem to have taken a step backwards. Sounds like they are using a new data supplier.
From Microsoft's website:
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More than 5.4 million miles of routable local, city, state, and highway roads in the United States and Canada—representing the 35,000+ U.S. and 700,000+ Canadian postal codes.
2004
Over 6.7 million miles of routable local, city, state, and highway roads, representing more than 35,000 U.S. ZIP Codes and 700,000 Canadian Postal Codes. |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
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Posted - 02 sept. 2004 : 22:51:19
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Welcome to this forum Ertyu,
At first I thought perhaps the 6.7 vs. 5.4 was a typo but you have explained the situation well and now we understand it. A typo it was not :-(
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xcanuk
Canada
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Posted - 02 sept. 2004 : 23:54:48
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Glad you mentioned that, even my old 2001 version covered Labrador and basically the Maritimes, looks like I'll be reinstalling 2001 as a back-up.
Within Montreal, I did notice they added street names to route numbers, ie route 138 is also shown as Sherbrooke, in 2001, only #138 appeared on the map itself. |
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gpspassion
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rick7
15 Posts |
Posted - 03 sept. 2004 : 11:03:25
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Are there new features for Pocket Streets in the 2005 related to the 2004 (ver 11)?
Is the size map limitation solved?
Does it turn with the driving direction?
Is it possible to define a route?
I still prefer to navigate with my PPC than with my notebook. |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6838 Posts |
Posted - 04 sept. 2004 : 15:42:38
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Hi Rick7,
I don't use the pocket version but AFAIK there still is no routing capability. In this version of Pocket Streets the icon showing your location is no longer just a dot but it now points in the direction you are traveling and also there is a new GPS status button on the front.
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Marvin Hlavac
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Albino
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Posted - 13 sept. 2004 : 04:12:18
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Can someone help? I purchases Microsoft Street and Trips 2005 with GPS locator. I installed Street and Trips 2005 on my Toshiba e800 Pocket PC. I am trying to get the GPS-360 working with my Toshiba E800. I found a Toshiba e800 USB driver on the Pharos website. I can't get it to work. When I attach the USB cable to the GPS-360 and then to the USB pigtail to my Toshiba, it keeps asking me to load a driver. The message is unknown USB device. I have soft reset my Toshiba multiple times with the GPS-360 attached.
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6838 Posts |
Posted - 14 sept. 2004 : 12:36:42
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Hi Albino,
Welcome to the forums.
The installation cd should install Microsoft driver. I would try that one first.
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Marvin Hlavac
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Albino
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Posted - 17 sept. 2004 : 04:14:42
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When I installed Pocket Streets to my Toshiba E-800, it did not load a USB driver for the Pharos GPS-360. I searched the disk and could not find a driver file either. Did you find one somewhere?
Thanks,
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ertyu
5 Posts |
Posted - 17 sept. 2004 : 07:25:13
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| Pocket Streets maps are still limited, best I can figure, there is a maximum zoom level it will output at. Looks like the programmers took the easy way out in limiting size. The downloadable map segments are pretty poor, at least for my city, it only has half the city and its not a big city. |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6838 Posts |
Posted - 18 sept. 2004 : 02:31:59
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Albino, I only have the software version of S&T. However, the version with gps receiver should have the drivers on Setup CD in D:\GPSDrvrs folder.
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Marvin Hlavac
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smsummers
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Posted - 20 sept. 2004 : 04:58:50
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| Unfortunately, those drivers in that directory are for Windows XP, NT, ME and 98, not the Pocket PC. Any other ideas? This seems workable and I'm really confused as to why it's not working. |
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smsummers
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Posted - 20 sept. 2004 : 06:43:53
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| Amazingly, they have a fix here. Use Pharos GPS' driver, but follow their registry editing instructions and it works!!! I can't believe how idiotic Pharos was not to fix the driver they posted to their own site. http://www.mdgps.org/modules.php?name=pocketcaching |
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Albino
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Posted - 21 sept. 2004 : 04:03:48
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It worked for my Toshiba E800. Teh only change I would make is that clarify that the driver.inf referenced in the webpage is the one that came with the Microsoft Streets and Trips 2005 Setup Disk. The actual name is different than driver.inf. In my case, though, both the 98 and XP folders led to the same information.
Thanks again for the website. It solved my problem. |
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Nolonemo
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