Re: Speed Camera detector Question
- From: "Steve" <No@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:24:42 GMT
"George Woodbine" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>D Leachman wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking of buying a speed camera detector. These come in either
>> radar
>> detector or GPS types. My questions are about the GPS ones. These depend
>> on
>> loading a database of known fixed speed camera locations into the device.
>> I'm trying to get a feel for how comprehensive and accurate these
>> databases
>> are, and whether some are better than others.
>>
>> There are about five manufacturers of GPS speed camera detectors. Does
>> each
>> manufacturer maintain his own database, or do some manufacturers share
>> the
>> same database? Does anyone know how many fixed camera locations there are
>> in
>> the different databases? Does anyone know how many fixed cameras there
>> are
>> currently in the UK?
>
> I have a PDA with the latest version of Tom-Tom on it, and the speed
> camera database from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/uksafetycameras.php.
> I'd much rather support this and send a few quid their way than a big
> company who'd charge a fortune for the same thing. It has missed a couple
> before, but I don't expect this to be any better or worse than any of the
> commercial databases.
>
> No experience with the radar ones, bar a colleague at work having one.
> When I was in his car it was constantly going off, especially in
> residential areas.. He said things like electric garage doors affected it.
> I don't know what was affecting it, but something was.. Too many false
> alarms for my liking.
The problem I see with databases like this is that they are primarily
compiled by you and me, ie Joe Public. I have them on my PDA too and find
that they are no where near as reliable as the database in my snooper s4
neo. So much so, they are turned off (just there in case I drive another
motor and forget the snooper). Snooper and the others use there own team(s)
to collate the locations. Each camera is stored so that it is on the correct
side of the road (less false alarms when your going towards a camera on the
other side) whereas on the PDA downloadable ones you dont know if its on
your side or not.
Not sure if they are unique databases or they share though.
I used to have a snooper s6, sometimes it would alert of a camera the next
day it wouldnt (same camera). Now have a snooper s4. This has never failed
to alert of a GATSO or Specs system yet (I do 30k a year). You can add your
own locations too by pressing one button so next time you pass that spot it
remembers and alerts you. (It seems to also remember which way you were
travelling too as it only goes off if your travelling in the direction you
were when you stored it.
I think Road Angel is very similar
If your going to buy one, I would suggest you stick to Snooper s4 or the
road angel, as they are the market leaders.
Steve
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