[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap-dev Digest, Vol 24, Issue 23

Fri Jul 23 02:04:12 BST 2010

Alan Millar wrote:
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>> Or it is an american term that is uncommon by the British? ;-) 
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> That may be true, but as an American I would say it is uncommon in America
> also :-)
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LOL!
> A few people use it; see for example:
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> http://www.lat-long.com/ListLocations-1-Illinois-Gut.html
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> That site also refers to a gut as an inlet or slough.  Those are much more
> common words in America. I wonder who picked "gut" for the Garmin usage? 
> Interesting.
>   
Really funny.
I must confess that I didn't think about the subtype. I just wondered, why an Island was under "water types" in my menu. And so I suggested to change the type.
But I learned a lot of interesting things in this discussuion. :-)))

Summasummarum my point of view of the Garmin devices has not changed:
They make really good hardware but the software would really need to be improved. When I look at the chaos in an official Garmin forum I doubt that they have a software development process.

Viele Grüße von Dani