On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:36:21 -0000, Jeremy Nixon
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Even the ones with USB connections have serious problems. Every time I go
looking at GPS units I give up in disgust because no one makes one that
would work the way I want.

Ah, so in the end, it's all about "I".

Of course it is. How else am I supposed to make a purchasing decision?
Should I buy something based on what someone else might want that I'll
never use?

Not if you have no intention of ever really using a GPSR.


OK, with the exception of using one third-party piece of
software, you can't customize the maps on any GPSR -- they all use a
proprietary forman and ouly allow uploading of their own mapsets.

And that's a problem, and it's silly.

Their economists, and the people who do the data collection
and provide the mapping technology seriously disagree with you.

So you may as well just drop the entire topic. It's likely to be years
before the industry rises to your required level of perfection.

And that's sad, when the industry refuses to make things people want and
are willing to pay for. Though I think I now understand why, with all
these people who insist that anything anyone might want to use a GPS unit
for that deviates from the Sacred Way That Shall Not Be Questioned must
be wrong in what they want.

What's really sad is your passive-agressive BS. We may be a
bunch of jerks, but we get to have fun with our GPSRs. Some of us even
cave in and buy the chaep adapter.