Tuesday, July 16, 2013

flying into the UK



It has been a while since I used GPS during a flight, with the pilots permission.

We were on a 777 and the iBlue acquired easily.

We fly up over Canada and I saw a point I created years ago over Iceland.
When we got over Scotland and then England, it was fun to see users points like the dog run at a hotel recorded by Gavin Atkins, some others by JG1104 and more. Glad to see you guys are enriching the environment.

Mike and Charles at a Fountain in Birmingham
Now, we are in Birmingham for the Sight Village conference. Looking forward to seeing people at our presentation at the HumanWare booth or around the hall.  Listen to an audio file Mike created at a fountain in Birmingham.

We had a fun hour and a half driving from the airport to test 3 GPS systems including the UK version of the Seeing Eye GPS. The main differences to deal with are maps and address matching, which is handled differently in the databases. Some cool stuff in the works.

Mike

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