Support Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products. (part two)

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  1. Mark Kling

    Mark Kling Technology Contributor

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    Do you have it set to record to internal or external SD?

    Start the Dash Cam, upper right - 3 dots, tap on them, then you will see your settings. You have to set to record to External SD Card if you wish that each time an SD Card is inserted.

    Thanks,
    Mark
     
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    It is set to external SD.
     
  4. Mark Kling

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    What size of sd card?

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    Tablet will take 128GB... Have you tried another card or format the 128GB and try it again.

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    Should have thought of that. Working now, thanks.
     
  7. delta5

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    Hey Mark, just did the big map update and my 720 is now suggesting all kinds of crazy routes for my regular runs. During the download, my internet connection was interrupted and I restarted the dock and download. But I think I might have corrupted something. How would I go about getting rid of or overwriting the map update and starting over?

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    I would just like to say my Tablet is operating beautifully. Saves my ### everyday.
     
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    I get the basics of what your saying here, but what i don't understand is how does Google, who is using a different system, pick a better route without all of this raw data and weights? I realize its routing as a car, but it would seem to me not to be a huge stretch for Google to do the same thing given certain parameters, like height and weight..
    So how are they doing it, and in some cases better?
     
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    Rand McNally revenues: approx $29.9 Million
    Google revenues: approx 90 Billion

    Rand McNally road data:
    purchased form HERE and overlayed with own proprietary data as a long-established mapping company.
    Google road data: owns it's own mapping division including real-time satellites - in SPACE that is. Oh, and a fleet of cars driving continuously around the country recording the GIS data and actual ROAD IMAGERY 365 days per year.

    Rand McNally fresh data feeding in: once or twice per year from HERE, and sporadically from the 25 or so drivers who actually do map feedbacks on their units and then connect to the dock and upload them. Pair that with slothfully slow state governments identifying truck-specific rules.
    Google fresh data feeding in: TWO BILLION active Android devices (as of May) feeding their position and speed information every few seconds... EACH.

    Actually, when compared to Google, it's remarkable that any GPS even comes remotely close. Good thing that major roads don't move too often... And good thing that Google doesn't want to make a stand-alone GPS or get into the truck-specific data game (yet.) But they don't need to make a stand-alone unit because they have, well 2 Billion devices with live Google Maps on them.

    Rand, Garmin, CoPilot, etc are able to make successful GPS products (truck, car, motorcycle, hiking) because they do a good job in the "niche" with the resources available actually. Good thing that someone is actually making them with truck route attributes at all. Didn't used to be that way just a few years back...
     
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