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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Council planners are to ask the makers of vehicle-based satellite navigation systems to stop sending heavy traffic through rural villages.

An increase in lorry traffic clogging roads in Wedmore, Somerset, led villagers there to call for it to be "wiped off" the sat nav map.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6974226.stm

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I'm sure the highways agency and the body who is involved with road planning should help the makers?

gfloyd · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:53 pm Post subject:

Bollards is the answer.
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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

Lets hope they also take motorways and main roads off satnavs as well, that will clear road congestion Laughing

They could also remove signposts and dig up the roads to these villages that don't want people driving though.

Rachel · Guest

Sat navs are fantastic... I've driven down all sorts of roads and through places that I didn't even know existed.., ( found a great pub!). I almost feel like I'm getting my money's worth from the road taxes I pay. If people don't like it they can always move onto the A394 cos my sat-nav never takes me that way!

Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

Sat Navs are great in my line of work, wouldn't be without mine, however, I do still look at the map and also ensure I am not being taken the wrong way up a one way street as it often tries that. Best of all though it once told me, after saying about 15 times, route recalculation " Satellite Navigation System is Lost". I was on a farmer's private road! Laughing

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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

At least it hasn't taken you over a cliff or into a river yet!! Isn't that another trick of theirs?! Shocked

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firewirefred · Guest

I tried out my mate's Tom Tom recently. I asked it to get me from my house to my local shops about 1/2 mile away. It took me by the most indirect route and also got stroppy with me when I refused to comply with its instruction to go down a one-way street!

Useless rubbish! A friend of ours who has got his own HGV business got so much stick from his fellow drivers that they have gone back to using good old HGV roadmaps now. At least they tell you where the low bridges are!

Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

Well not had that problem, except with one way streets, however, most people, me included, don't bother to go on line and update the software. So you cannot blame the Sat Nav systems entirely. But recently I had to cover another field service engineers area, in rural Suffolk & Norfolk, going to poultry farms miles down single track roads, entering the post code got me to within 50 metres of the farm gates, every time. This must have saved me hours as even on ordnance survey maps, many of the farms were not shown. Mine is a Mio system, which I prefer to Tom Tom.

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