The NEED for me to SPEED !

Ok. We all like speeding... so after I had my new toy, I have been trying to test at what speed will I confuse or make my GPS receiver knock out. (Am I crazy ?).

All the screen captures from my Nuvi. Here goes :



247km/h. Wooo.. That was sure fast. But satellite tracking was still good... I need to go faster...



Is this for real ?

At 500km/h, error rate is getting higher and I am losing a bit of satellite signals. More.. More !



898km/h ?!!!!

Something must be wrong here. How can I go so fast ? And normally, 2 satellite locks is insufficient to compute location information.


So where is this place that I can get to test my Nuvi at such high speeds ? Some secret research place ? Some place where the police are sleeping ? Well, no, cos this is where I was :



Actually, the max speed that was recorded was about 900+ km/h before all signals were lost.

So this GPS unit is definitely not used to guide missiles... Or maybe I just didn't stick my GPS near the window enough. (I wasn't seated at a window seat.)

Cos all these were taken when I was sitting near the window seat on my recent trip from Bangkok.


In Bangkok, where there are less buildings and more sky, I can get these good signals in a taxi :

I am in Bangkok again...

This time it is for work...

Time flies. Had been very busy the last few weeks. But that is not the reason why I have dropped in my blogging.

Call it blog fatique. Or just lack of ramblings. I don't know what to say anymore. And writing about what I do want to say doesn't give me any more satisfaction.

Anyway, fun to see that my GPS toy works fine in Bangkok, and I have the whole detailed map of Thailand. Pretty accurate too.

Unfortunately, the map is non-routable. That means I can only see where I am, and find places, just like a normal paper map. It doesn't tell me HOW to get from one place to another.

Routable maps cost a couple of hundred bucks. Not worth it.

Too bad then...