{"id":199354,"date":"2007-08-08T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/08\/still-a-few-bugs-in-consumer-gps-systems\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T12:09:00","slug":"still-a-few-bugs-in-consumer-gps-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/08\/still-a-few-bugs-in-consumer-gps-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Still a Few Bugs in Consumer GPS Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The directions they give may be no better than those of Cletus B. Hounddog, so take their advice with a grain of salt.  Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/03\/26\/subaquatic_merc\/\">a woman, and her \u00a396,000 Mercedes River Sence in Sheepy Magna<sup>*<\/sup>, Leicestershire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, someone who is willing to pay \u00a396K ($US 195K) for a car, probably has more money than brains.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Sheepy Magna?????  Now that is a screwy name.  A quick Google finds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdlp.co.uk\/resources\/Sheepy\/history.htm\">this<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Sheepy, (from the old english  sceap + eg meaning &#8216;island or dry ground in the marsh where the sheep graze&#8217;), straddles the River Sence from Fieldon Bridge, the boundary with Atherstone and also the county boundary with Warwickshire. Sheepy is divided into two parts Great Sheepy or Sheepy Magna and Little Sheepy or Sheepy Parva, each with it&#8217;s own ancient manor. Sheepy Magna also includes the Hamlets of The  Mythe and Pinwall, The Mythe may well have had it&#8217;s own manor but Pinwall was a Grange of Merevale Abbey.  Newhouse Grange was also part of the  Merevale estate and remained annexed to the parish of Merevale until 1885.<br \/>&#8230;..<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The directions they give may be no better than those of Cletus B. Hounddog, so take their advice with a grain of salt. Case in point, a woman, and her \u00a396,000 Mercedes River Sence in Sheepy Magna*, Leicestershire. Of course, someone who is willing to pay \u00a396K ($US 195K) for a car, probably has more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1025,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-technology","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}