Navigation Systems

[Gryphon]

OK...well Im going to car shop this weekend...if I dont find what I want this time, i give up...and will just have a portable one put in the car I have now.
Thanks!

[tootallannie]

I'm not real sure. The goverment is kinda strange when it comes to GPS. They could very well already be in use, But the gov may be holding up the access. They can move the satelites around and put them in the orbit which best suits their needs. If you just want one for car travel, what's out there now will do you just fine, probably no more than a fifty foot error at the worst case and the error is random, so at times it may be extremely accurate, plenty good enough for car travel.

Unless you live in WV. I've actually thought about buying one of these because it would be great for my job where I get directions like, take the old mall road, when you see a big white church turn left, follow that road up the hill, at the top of the hill go right down the lane, look for a house with a big deck on the back.

But since I can't afford one, it's a moot point. However, since Mercer Co. started 911 mapping I now have a mailing address, a physical address that puts me in a town that's 7 miles away and my real address in which the street sign is completely different than the recorded physical address. So I wonder if they would work here? Heck, I wonder if I call 911 if they'd ever be able to find me.

[Graybeard]

But since I can't afford one, it's a moot point. However, since Mercer Co. started 911 mapping I now have a mailing address, a physical address that puts me in a town that's 7 miles away and my real address in which the street sign is completely different than the recorded physical address. So I wonder if they would work here? Heck, I wonder if I call 911 if they'd ever be able to find me

You would have to buy an expensive GPS for it to have the capability for local addresses. Most have maps that only have major routes,(460,I77,52) some state routes(10,20,etc) The way they work is you go online, or a quad map and find the latitude and longitude, or cooridinates of your destination and enter or download them into your reciever, or you can purchase more detailed maps.

My physical address is also a ways from my mailing address, although only about half a mile.

[tootallannie]

You would have to buy an expensive GPS for it to have the capability for local addresses. Most have maps that only have major routes,(460,I77,52) some state routes(10,20,etc) The way they work is you go online, or a quad map and find the latitude and longitude, or cooridinates of your destination and enter or download them into your reciever, or you can purchase more detailed maps.

My physical address is also a ways from my mailing address, although only about half a mile.

Bet I could find you. Seriously, what I do when I'm sent into some remote area is stop by houses and ask "do you know where so and so lives?" Since I'm wearing scrubs, I'm not perceived as a threat. Usually. There was one night I was greeted with a shotgun.

GPS just isn't practical in WV since there were a lot of people (like me) who didn't put those cards that said things like "BYKIS" in a prominent location during the 911 mapping. As you know, we're just naturally suspicious of the government knowing more about us than they need to.

And since the directions I get from work are usually not worth the paper they're written on, longtitude and latitude is really out of the question. I'm lucky if I can figure out a 5 mile square region. I'm constantly on the cell saying "Ok, I'm sitting at the burnt out trailer and there's a dirt road to the left. Do I turn or go straight?"

[Graybeard]

I know what your saying, I don't think I ended up on the 911 map either. One plus with GPS that it shows you where you're at on the map, for instance you might be traveling a back road not shown on your gps, but you can zoom in or out on your screen and see where the big road is in relation to where your at, or if you have to make a lot of turns in an unfamiliar area you can backtrack your return following a cookie trail you left on the way up the holler.

[Gryphon]

"Ok, I'm sitting at the burnt out trailer and there's a dirt road to the left. Do I turn or go straight?"

you're killin me!!

Whats "BYKIS?"

[tootallannie]

you're killin me!!

Whats "BYKIS?"

Beats the heck out of me. When they started the 911 mapping, people got these cardboard squares with acronyms on them and were supposed to prominately display them on their homes so the mappers could see them. Mine said "BYKIS." By yonder kryptonite interstate? Others had different ones. Like MAACAM.

Oh, and they went to street names vs. route numbers and apparently they had a creative namer because now we got Moo Cow Road, Chicken Farm Road and Granny's Road.

911, what is your emergency? Help, my trailer's on fire. I live on Rt. 19/6. Oops, sorry. I mean I live on Moo Cow Road. MOO COW ROAD. Law, just take Old Beckley Road til you come to the white church and go left. Look for the flames.

[followsthewolf]

Yer killin' me, annie!!!!!!

[Graybeard]

Oh, and they went to street names vs. route numbers and apparently they had a creative namer because now we got Moo Cow Road, Chicken Farm Road and Granny's Road.

Some of my cousins used to live on Granny's road, actually at the end of the road. That was way before the 911 names.

BTW, did you get a 911 address? I had one of those stupid signs on my door for a few months, got tired of seeing it, and took it down. I never heard from 911 if they give me an address or not.

[tootallannie]

Some of my cousins used to live on Granny's road, actually at the end of the road. That was way before the 911 names.

BTW, did you get a 911 address? I had one of those stupid signs on my door for a few months, got tired of seeing it, and took it down. I never heard from 911 if they give me an address or not.

Nah, never put it up. I don't want them to know where I am.  It'll still be the same thing. Look for the tan Ford Escort Wagon in front. Always worked before.

[Gryphon]

LOL!!

yeah, out in the country here, you can tell the road namer was either bored or had one helluva twisted sense of humour.
I'll have to take note of some of them the next time Im driving around...

[tootallannie]

Here's one of the signs we were supposed to put up. Some people complied. Come around knocking at midnight?