Re: Garmin City Select 6.0 to 7.0 not a free update

David Lee <davidlee_malvern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Any facility that may reasonably be used by any normal user (not just those
> of us with an in-depth understanding of the limitations of the technology)
> should be engineered properly or not included at all.

It comes down to what's defined as reasonable. To expect the GPS to guide
you correctly to an address or POI is reasonable. To expect the GPS
to have 100% accurate POIs is not reasonable. To expect the GPS to have
100% coverage of POIs is not reasonable. To expect the GPS to have
100% of all hospitals and campgrounds is also not reasonable, no matter
how hard one person may think it so.

And who would get to decide what MUST be given 100% coverage? You? Me?
The poster who feels all campgrounds are important? The one who thinks
all hospitals are important? What if someone thinks all gas stations are
important? Or Italian restaurants? And then what if that's not possible?
If they can't give 100% coverage, are we to expect Garmin just to exclude
all hospitals just because they can't "engineer it properly" to have
100% coverage? That doesn't sound like a reasonable solution to me.

I'm not saying Garmin's right to have (allegedly) fewer POI's in v7
than in v6, or that their hospotal coverage is adequate. I merely
dispute the claim that they MUST provide 100% coverage on these items
just because it sounds like a really good idea to a handful of people.


Cheers,
-+JLS

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