RE: Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot 307?

[ian.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Mine is a Navman and in imperial it uses the damned American style of
feet. Turn left in 1500 feet means nothing to me - I want it in yards.
Switch to Metric and Kilometres mean nothing to me either. At least yards
and metres are only 3 inches apart and can be read as the same when
barrelling down the road in a car.

How you can overshoot a turning because it was 100 yards away rather than
100 metres I have no idea particularly as a yard is longer (just). It's a
total difference of about 9 metres further down the road. Of course I have
every faith you never travel too fast ;-)

Ian (who can miss the turning under almost any and all circumstances)






"Bricknell, Tony" <tony.bricknell@xxxxxxx>
Sent by: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
05/01/2006 12:04
Please respond to ukha_d


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Subject:        RE: [ukha_d] Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot
307?


No, it's me as well.  Many a time I've almost overshot my turning because
of this.  Or was it because I was travelling too fast...

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Ho Yin
Sent: 05 January 2006 10:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot 307?


Yes!!!!

Like with TomTom.

I like it when they display the overal distance to cover in miles.

But then when I come to a junction I don't want to be told how far away it
is in yards!! I want it in metres!

But that is probably just me.

Ho yin








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