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[ This Message was edited by: Krubach on 2005-01-28 18:25 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-28 15:58:57
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....what were they thinking....at least youd get to see some sights along the way

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[ This Message was edited by: The Little Master on 2005-01-28 15:07 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-28 16:05:18
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Posted: 2005-01-28 19:22:02
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That is rediculous. Damn microsoft. Imagine, in 45 years time, when cars drive themselves, how much trouble you'd be in if you set it to go there and fell asleep? You'd wake up half way accross the UK like WTF?!?!?!?

Nick
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Posted: 2005-01-28 19:37:51
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I see how everyone blames Microsoft immediately. I guess in some way they are responsible but software companies almost never gather this kind of data themselves and use suppliers and so the data is totally dependant on their quality.

Microsoft use Navtech and indeed you can see that my latest version microsoft autoroute (2005) plots the same route



however Garmin use data from the norweigan mapping authority and my GPS (and the pc software) plots a good route


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Posted: 2005-01-28 19:53:05
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Still that is not the shortes route.
I'll dig out a Norwegian road map later to show you.

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Here you go:



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[ This Message was edited by: tranquil on 2005-01-28 19:30 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-28 20:15:54
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seems that my garmin one is still slighty shorter, though there is not much in it.

its shows as 483 miles which multipled by 1.609 gives 777km

I guess local knowledge would tell you which was the better route to take

edit: just noticed. that one is showing as 17 hours whereas the garmin one is 12:24

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[ This Message was edited by: masseur on 2005-01-28 20:35 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-28 21:15:23
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@masseur: "your" route is shorter as we can see, and probably quicker too. Its cause yours uses a renault 5 as a average time test, and tranquils uses a ferrari....lol
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Posted: 2005-01-28 22:26:42
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On 2005-01-28 21:15:23, masseur wrote:
seems that my garmin one is still slighty shorter, though there is not much in it.


there is 'shorter' and there is 'faster'

Our national routeplanner gives both options and they are not necessarily the same
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Posted: 2005-01-28 23:02:19
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Good point. I suppose faster would stick to main (faster) roads, while shorter would go through the back roads.

Nick
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Posted: 2005-01-28 23:10:14
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