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  • 18-11-2010 12:49pm
    #1
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭


    Have switched to Bing for maps, wtf?


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    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Ugh!

    They should give us the option to load whatever we want and select Google, OSM, Bling or whatever.


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    #3
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Bloody Nora it's like going back 2yrs wrt road updates.


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    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Does remind me that I've been meaning to re download all my workouts from GC for ages so I can re-populate a local copy of SportTracks. Still annoyed that I lost all my workouts from my pre-Garmin days though.


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    eliwallach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭eliwallach


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Have switched to Bing for maps, wtf?

    +1


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    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    robinph wrote: »
    Does remind me that I've been meaning to re download all my workouts from GC for ages so I can re-populate a local copy of SportTracks. Still annoyed that I lost all my workouts from my pre-Garmin days though.

    Is there any way to mass download? or do you have to download one at a time? I'd like to download all my workouts from my old watch.


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    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Is there any way to mass download? or do you have to download one at a time? I'd like to download all my workouts from my old watch.

    Not that I've yet been able to figure out, but only because I cannot get a page that lists all activities at once. If the Activities page, or the RSS feed or something would give the activity numbers then we could just do a loop and save this link each time:
    connect.garmin.com/proxy/activity-service-1.0/tcx/activity/<ACTIVITY_NUMBER>?full=true

    Suppose, I could go through each page of the activities section in sequence and grab the 20 numbers from each page, but I've not been motivated enough to do that yet.


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    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,524 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Epic Fail. I hate it when companies make decision without looking at the impact on their customers worldwide. Atrocious mapping. Might be ok in the US, but in Ireland Bing is quite poor. Who do Microsoft get their maps from? The only positive is that their satellite photography is much better than google's. Largely unimpressed.


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    shotgunmcos
    Registered Users Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    The only positive is that their satellite photography is much better than google's.

    +1 agree with this, any idea what the satellite time delay is?


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    KentuckyPete
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭KentuckyPete


    mloc123 wrote: »
    Have switched to Bing for maps, wtf?

    Pure sh*te. The only way I can even see the maps is to look in "Player" view. The map doesn't appear at all in the other 2 views.

    Waaay out of date too - presumably it's a lot cheaper/convenient for Garmin in terms of licensing or Microsoft tie-up or something


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