GPS Errors
Jun 5, 2020 06:38:18 #
If your GPS says, "You have reached your destination," and you are sinking into a swamp, there's probably a reason for that. We don't know what the reason is, but ships have been broadcasting false locations from their GPS systems. They are shown sailing in circles and being thousands of miles from their actual locations.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245305-gps-mystery-is-making-ships-appear-to-teleport-and-move-in-circles/?utm_source=NSNEW&utm_campaign=6f093b0cf2-nsnew_040620&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e65fab71ff-6f093b0cf2-379662407
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245305-gps-mystery-is-making-ships-appear-to-teleport-and-move-in-circles/?utm_source=NSNEW&utm_campaign=6f093b0cf2-nsnew_040620&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e65fab71ff-6f093b0cf2-379662407
Jun 5, 2020 07:42:08 #
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Jun 5, 2020 09:00:21 #
DaveO wrote:
China is developing a new GPS system.
I wonder if it will be designed to interfere with what's up there now. They have demonstrated their killer satellites.
Jun 5, 2020 09:14:14 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I wonder if it will be designed to interfere with what's up there now. They have demonstrated their killer satellites.
This is a whole new system with supposedly better capabilities. They are not the only other country developing a new system.
Jun 5, 2020 12:37:27 #
jerryc41 wrote:
If your GPS says, "You have reached your dest... (show quote)
On land, when GPS has failed me, the problem has been in a bad map - most likely the road no longer exists.
Jun 6, 2020 09:08:17 #
I find my GPS a source of great amusement. I was visiting friends in another state, and they live on an unpaved road. When I entered the address, the unit dutifully informed me of this, and asked if I wanted to go somewhere else... Well, no; that is where they live. When I left their house and set the unit to go home, it warned me again, and asked if I wanted to go via a different route, in order to avoid the unpaved road I was currently parked on!
I have installed the voice from "Wallace & Grommit" on the unit. Last year, I was using it on the bus for a wrestling field trip. Coming along the road from the school on the way back, it suddenly announced "Left turn ahead boy! You can do it... Just turn the wheel!". This unit is probably over 10 years old, and I had *never* heard that particular message. The coaches sitting behind me cracked up - I thought one of them was going to have a stroke!
Ah, fun days on the bus... I wonder if it is missing me?
I have installed the voice from "Wallace & Grommit" on the unit. Last year, I was using it on the bus for a wrestling field trip. Coming along the road from the school on the way back, it suddenly announced "Left turn ahead boy! You can do it... Just turn the wheel!". This unit is probably over 10 years old, and I had *never* heard that particular message. The coaches sitting behind me cracked up - I thought one of them was going to have a stroke!
Ah, fun days on the bus... I wonder if it is missing me?
Jun 6, 2020 09:43:48 #
Bloke wrote:
I have installed the voice from "Wallace & Grommit" on the unit.
I'll have to look for that.
Jun 6, 2020 09:50:27 #
Jun 6, 2020 10:08:06 #
Longshadow wrote:
I have John Cleese's voice on mine.
I bought John Cleese, and used it for a while, but he wasn't funny. Plus, when you go round a roundabout, he does a weird thing, and makes it a question - "Go around the roundabout, second exIT?", with a strong rise in pitch on the last syllable.
Just a little thing, but it bugged the heck out of me... So I went back to Wallace. I actually met the guy in London, many years ago. Well, bumped into him in the street, actually. Never could remember his name, but he was nice enough to respond when I said hello.
Jun 6, 2020 10:12:59 #
Bloke wrote:
I bought John Cleese, and used it for a while, but... (show quote)
"You have arrived at your destination. You can get out now, but I'm not going to help carry your bags.
From now on you're on your own."
Jun 6, 2020 12:54:50 #
Jun 6, 2020 13:04:14 #
Diocletian wrote:
Uh Oh.
If they want to get rid of you they send you off a cliff???
Recalculatiiiiiiinnnng.
Jun 6, 2020 13:14:14 #
I don't have a handheld GPS unit, but sometimes use my laptop computer in the car with mapping software to do my navigation. A few years ago in southern Ontario my navigator directed me off a very nice paved highway onto a lesser road -- it was nice enough that I did it. The road kept degenerating and eventually I was on a narrow dirt road that even had a sign stating that it could be dangerous. I finally managed to get back onto the nice highway. I investigated later and found I'd set the software to provide the shortest path (instead of the fastest) and that diversion was a couple of miles shorter than the nice road. (I changed the setting!)
Jun 6, 2020 13:22:07 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I don't have a handheld GPS unit, but sometimes us... (show quote)
Once when going through West Virginia, my wife's iPhone took us down a mountain Forest Service road at night for the same reason.
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