AboutMichael Brower Expertise Questions about the operation of the GPS constellation, functionality and expectations of GPS receivers, GPS applications, wireless-GPS applications, E-911, Vehicle Tracking, Vehicle Navigation, publishing GPS data, the functionality and methodology of differential GPS.
Experience Have worked with location technology since the mid 70s, loran A, Loran C, Transit Satellite Navigation, Omega, GPS, Local Positioning Systems, DGPS. Assisted in the development of the NMEA Communications Standards (1983) and invented navigation data protocol conversion. Pioneered the OEM GPS industry in 1990 and the integration of GPS into Vehicle Navigation and Vehicle Tracking Applications. Assisted in the development of a National DGPS system via RDS subcarrier in the mid 90s and worked with the Globalstar Satellite Communications system. Currently publish Wireless Location News. http://www.wireless-location.com. Own and operate LocEight, a web portal that allows people to publish their location information. http://www.loceight.com.
Publications Wireless Location News
Education/Credentials High school, 2 years college, Airborne Communications and Navigation Systems USAF 1968, various computer science courses (1983 and useless btw), self educated hardware design and assembly level programming, self educated C programming (never made the leap to C++, morphed into marketing instead) self educated HTML, Perl, PHP, and JavaScript programming.
Expert: Michael Brower Date: 7/1/2008 Subject: when the address is on a highway
Question I have a garmin Streetpilot c330. When the address in question is on a
highway, say 413 Highway 13, how do you enter it? It won't take highway
spelled out and it won't take hwy as an abbreviation. I read the whole 37
page manual, and the problem isn't mentioned.
Answer I have a 680 and still haven't figured it out. It frustrates me to no degree.
Sometimes Interstate Highway 35 is IH-35. Many times an address will be IH-35 South regardless which side of the highway it is on. Many times if I try to find an intersection of two highways I can select both highways and then when I select 'Done' it tells me intersection was not found. Pisses me off.
I just bought the 2009 map update and was sadly disappointed. A waste of money.
I've gotten to where instead of trying to plan out a trip by entering points on the Garmin I will go to Google and find the POI and transfer it to the Garmin that way.
