GPS Navigation Eguipment

Business: the cost is too high for six months a navigation map update

Navigation Means the wrong path Want to go to port industrial area has been brought into the site, thought to fetch Jingjiang Road Express only to find that road has been closed … …

GPS Navigation map was originally brought convenience for people to travel, because the map updates can be slow, but to bring inconvenience to users.

Sell : GPS navigation map is the latest

The truth: “New Map” is the 2008

Survey: Cost is too high only once in six months

Wu said that his hands to buy car GPS is more than a month ago, when the equipment inside the business that the map is the latest. Reporter from the sale of car GPS’s business office was informed that the business call “latest map” is produced and released in 2008.

Reporter visited the SEB, such as digital city Buynow GPS more than 20 sales traders, sales staff from the mouth of that, these GPS maps are all configured in the 2008 edition, the latest map update 2009 may be wait until after October, even though in October to provide download services for customers, they released the Navigation Map, also based in the first quarter or first half of the satellite images produced. “Company update the map, is to attract customers to purchase GPS equipment. Although customers do not pay the replacement cost, but we have to buy a map free of charge to customers out of their pocket, so would not be worth the update frequency is too fast.”

Reporter from Beijing, Shanghai and found five sales

Electronic Navigation map of the company. Beijing, a sales clerk said that a complete set of background navigation map price of about 8 million. They made the process, starting with foreign companies to buy satellite images, and then by scanning and other technologies to produce an electronic map into customers. However, the more new satellite image, the higher the price, but each map also add about 15% of the updated production costs. Making the price of a map of Beijing, almost took 100,000 yuan. “If there is no customer order, such as satellite pictures we can only ‘fire sale’ when to buy and produce. Update frequency is twice a year or so.”

Having said that, taking into account the economic costs and benefits, business GPS navigation map update frequency is not high. Therefore, Mr. Wu Li masters and taxi drivers are GPS “misleading”, and also occurs in other users.

Tianjin Institute of Surveying and Mapping:

Paper tourist traffic map out a monthly update

Addition to GPS navigation map, the people are more familiar ordinary paper maps. Then, the frequency of paper maps update How fast? Reporter learned from the Tianjin Institute of Surveying and Mapping, seven subordinate branch of the hospital responsible for the production and distribution of Tianjin map. 7 branch staff, said Mr. Ban, the market of Tianjin tourism traffic map update frequency higher staff will change according to the city roads, road names change, community, unit changes, update the map at any time. Basic can do an updated version of the map monthly. In addition to these changes update, the staff will have been published under the city’s overall plan will be the future planning of roads, bridges, etc. in the map marked using dotted lines.

Confusion Wu Jingjiang Road has been closed

GPS non so “forward”

Yesterday, Mr. Wu lives in Nankai District, located east of the river area and want to go to the junction of the Jingjiang area of Hebei, a courier pick up the road, he Hedong District, Hebei District, unfamiliar with the area, decided to use GPS to the car. Jingjiang Road, destination is 18, in accordance with the GPS prompts him to 500 meters before the line, you can reach the destination. But he drove along the road, Jingjiang Road to the Great Patriotic mouth, they found a food stalls facing a board, the original, this road has been closed to vehicles not go through, and his hand GPS, are still constantly prompted to “move forward” .

Mr. Wu had to get off to ask the way, one inquired he realized Jingjiang Road area have been closed for over a year, since construction is not the end. Tianjin Station are looking for luggage room two libraries, on the other end of the baffle, as long as along the Great Patriotic Road, bypass the loop and then hooked Changzhou Road, will be able to reach the destination.

Happened to Master Li GPS guiding “go inside”

Taxi broke down site

Also been GPS “misleading” Master Lee was also a taxi driver. Last weekend night, one of the passengers going to Port industrial area. Master said to the Tanggu District, Lee unfamiliar roads, the passengers said that GPS can lead the way cell phones. At first all the way running pretty well, can travel to the port on the 2nd of roads, GPS has chosen a recent road, puts them into a site in. Although Lee may not access the site master that, but listen to GPS reminder “to move forward”, he dove into the darkness of the site is the result of the car dropped anchor. Asked migrant workers know, the original road had become a talking GPS site, carts car would go through.
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