Re: Garmin don't want to know about bugs

Vartan Narinian wrote:
Dan Anderson <danderson2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Map objects (lodging, roads, etc.) are assigned to zoom levels when the "map" is created to give an easy criterion for the receiver to decide when to hide or not. User waypoints don’t have this attribute and most users probably wouldn’t bother setting it if a waypoint had a zoom level. So "better user waypoint display" isn’t a high priority – development time and program code space is going into more important issues.


This isn't entirely true because depending on the 'Map Detail' global
setting more or fewer are displayed. So it's not just a single attribute
of each object. The software takes into account the level of detail you
requested and dynamically decides what to hide/show.

Multiple attributes are not needed to implement the "Map Detail"
function. It can be done by displaying objects as if the zoom level
were higher or lower than it actually is.

How many attributes a map object has for display level control is
also not relevant because the point is that user waypoints don't
have any and map objects do.

You talk about development priorities. Whose priorities, Garmin's or the
customer's? As a customer, my priority is fixing the model I own (and
which is supposed to still be in warranty), not the 10 models one year
down the line. And if my own model isn't fixed, then I will NOT buy the
next one, because I know that that will be treated the same.

I feel as if Garmin are putting their efforts into getting out as many new
models as they can, abandoning them as soon as they're out in order to
concentrate on the next ones. If that's the case I'm not buying.

Garmin has been fixing bugs for some time after a product has been
released and has even added additional functionality. Eventually the
code is "frozen" for older models. And, of course, it is always
frustrating when a product doesn't work the way you want it to.

The clutter doesn’t particularly bother me. I just zoom in and out as needed. I’d rather see what’s there than have the receiver hide the waypoint that is most important to me. The “Highway Page” hides the user waypoints that I want to see.


This is of course your own particular preference, for which there is a
specific setting: 'Hide Above = No'. 'Auto' means something entirely
different.


In the case of the “Highway Page” there is no zoom setting. The
specific problem with the “Highway Page”, which doesn't seem to be
present on my current receivers, was that any waypoint closer than
about a 1/2 mile was not displayed. A waypoint a mile in the
distance was displayed.

As far as the map page, the receiver doesn't display the text
of a waypoint when close to another waypoint (but does try to show
the icon). Sometimes the text for the waypoint that I want to
see is the one that is not shown. There is no user setting
for this. I've missed waypoints that I was closest to which
had their text blanked because a waypoint a bit farther away
was shown instead.

--
Dan
(email change 2001 to 2004)
(www.gpsmap.net)
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