Garmin

How to piss off your customers

Published by on November 19, 2010

Garmin announced an update to their free-online mapping site. Once again, they demonstrate that they don’t understand that they don’t understand how to manage customer relationships, as the upgrade significantly deteriorates the usability of the site. Basically the problem is the move from Google Maps to Bing – the much poorer quality Microsoft alternative. There is a thread on the… Read more →

A childhood indulgence

Published by on April 2, 2009 | 2 Responses

Since it’s been a bit wet to ride as consistently as I have been lately, I decided that some better local mapping is in order. While I have been driving roads and correcting local data on OpenStreetMap, I felt that the map still looked a bit bare, especially given the bridge and fords crossing nothing. Free satellite imagery unfortunately doesn’t… Read more →

Checking out the Main Arm to Uki road (and others)

Checking out the Main Arm to Uki road (and others)

Published by on December 29, 2008

I decided that today would be the day to take the N800 and GPS and do some more  mapping for OpenStreetMap. First I went up Upper Wilson’s Creek, which has the feel I recall for the whole valley during my adolescence – numerous creek crossings all in flood, small windy roads where cars have to pull over to let others… Read more →

Day 0 – Sydney to Coffs Harbour

Published by on December 17, 2008

The trip up was reasonable. Bobbie dropped me at the station at about 6:15; the luggage people asked what I was giving them for transport, and I said it was a bike – they said OK. At Coffs, I was walking along the station towards the luggage cart and didn’t see the bike bag, so I called out that there… Read more →

My new toy

Published by on May 15, 2008

Edge 705, originally uploaded by wamblicious. The new Edge 705 is available in Australia, finally. While it’s not perfect, it’s much better than the old 305. You can see the map screen, with the OzTopo Roads map being shown. I got it bundled with the maps from GPSOz, so I wouldn’t have to depend on the crappy default maps that… Read more →

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