Why do we have to have a British voice on our Irish satnav maps??

skibum

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Personally i think sat nav is one of the biggest wastes of money. For starters, apart from truckers 99.9% of car journeys are made on a route the driver knows reasonably well. And if you dont know it id sooner trust an old fashioned paper map than technology.

That's fair enough, I use sat nav a fair bit, find it very handy for going places that I don't know reasonably well or when I'm driving abroad. On holidays I can concentrate on the road without worrying about missing turnoff's etc, and the "discussions" with the missus over her map reading skills

I still carry a map as there will be adresses that will not be on the data base.

All in all I think it is a great driving aid when used with common sense. You hear of muppets who end up in fields or going up one way streets and blame the satnav, those type of gobsh!tes have difficulties with video recorders, computers and other "high tech" equipment anyway :rolleyes:

Masada

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Personally i think sat nav is one of the biggest wastes of money. For starters, apart from truckers 99.9% of car journeys are made on a route the driver knows reasonably well. And if you dont know it id sooner trust an old fashioned paper map than technology.

I use it every saturday when im heading out to the outskirts, i can never remember the country roads so it comes in very handy.,
And not to mention that a lot of them double as a bluetooth handsgree kit and thats what mine would mostly be used for.,

ejmaztec wrote:

Yes I have, but I don't see that my post was anti-British, so I'm still puzzled as to why you thought it was.

Ive just realized what you meant, my reply to your post was the O Connell street thing, then i said,

as for the anti british crap

referring to the comment by fumpidge.,;)

unkel

yayamark wrote: »

Mines "Deirdre" as in Deirdres Directions:p

Double D. You got any pics?

Pete4779

I think this is a strange complaint. The Swiss and Austrians have to deal with someone from Hannover doing the German voices for that satnav, for example.

It's really an accent issue, and the fact that the OP seems to miss the point that if it was to be for Ireland it should actually be in Irish, not just Dublin-accented english.

It makes sense for the most "standard" version of a language to be the one used, not some localised dialect. It's not a "British voice" on "Irish maps", it's English language by someone speaking clearly from a company that produced the maps. Same e.g., with Hannover and Hochdeutsch being used in Swizterland nav units, which unsurprisingly, are made with a *language* as the deciding factor, not the local accent (Dublin-english, Liverpudlian english, Cockney, etc., are all just dialects and far too pronounced to be practical or neutral except for a small population)