Hi,
anbei mein schriftwechsel mit Garmin. Klar daß dem Tony jetzt nix mehr eingefallen ist. Wenn das jemand haben will - schreibt auch an Garmin, vielleicht passiert ja dann was.
Ciao,
Holger
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Hi Tony,
I still can't understand why it is a problem to store either 50 times 50 points (=2500 points) or store 10 times 250 points. I mean it is clear that if a route has 250 points I can't have 49 more with 50 each. I thought as long as the total number of points stored in routes remains the same this is no problem. And I can live much more with 10 routes of 250 points (or make it 20 with 125 each, that would be ok as well) that 50x50 - 50 points in a route in a crowded forest in Germany is not enough to plan a route since there are MANY intersections in trails and sunday-wood-walking routes in the forest, combined with steep declines in some regions in my area. So if you want to go a route there is not much chance to get only nearly on it - due to hills and valleys you have to be ON it.
Thanks for your understanding and best regards,
Holger Issle
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:21:58 -0500, "Broad, Tony" <Tony.Broad@garmin.com> wrote:
>Hi Holger,
>
>I'm afraid it isn't as simple as that - you also have to store the details
>of the route.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tony Broad
>Service/Support and MIS Manager
>Garmin (Europe) Ltd
>http://www.garmin.com
>http://www.garmin.com/support/
>
>Please include any previous correspondence with your reply.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Dear Tony,
>
>thanks for your message. I really can't understand why it should take
>more memory to let a route consist of up to 250 points rather than 50
>as both are 8-bit-numbers. I do not ask you to increase the total 500
>waypoints and whatever number of mappoints the unit has, but only to
>change the rules of allocation of available points into routes!
>
>Thanks and best regards,
>Holger Issle
>
>On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 03:21:15 -0500, "Broad, Tony"
><Tony.Broad@garmin.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Holger,
>>
>> Your request was passed to our engineers, but I cannot force them to make
>a
>> change.
>>
>> Settings like this are normally a compromise between functionality and
>> available memory.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tony Broad
>> Service/Support and MIS Manager
>> Garmin (Europe) Ltd
>> http://www.garmin.com
>> http://www.garmin.com/support/
>>
>> Please include any previous correspondence with your reply.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Problem: Hi, I've asked for this before and got a
>comment
>> like "it is high on the wish list". I am still waiting for it, and I
>> deferred my purchase of the 76S because it has the same problem: A route
>can
>> only take 50 waypoints. I am going by mountainbike (for training
>> purposes) in the forest frequently, and to navigate savely on my desired
>> route I need to add turn-by-turn instructions in the GPS as route.
>Typically
>> I need at least 80-100 waypoints for a 30-50km trip. It is at least stupid
>> to have the need to change the route in the middle since time & distance
>to
>> destination are not possible for the complete route and it is not easy to
>> hit the keys when going at full speed for a while. So why don't you
>> change that? The 176 (too big for me on the MTB) has it by now, and as a
>> software engineer I can't understand why it is a problem to change a
>> constant from 50 to 250. Could you please explain that? Thnanks a lot
>> and best regards, Holger Issle