Swiss safety camera POI's banned on sat Nav
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Apparently they have banned speed camera poi's on your sat nav, even if they are for another country, Can you rename them to something else such as money generators, banks etc ?
I have been in contact with a swiss moderator off a Swiss forum asking him questions about this,
www.yournav.com/content/n/270/some_PND+#8217s_banned_in_Switzerland.html
I have been in contact with a swiss moderator off a Swiss forum asking him questions about this,
www.yournav.com/content/n/270/some_PND+#8217s_banned_in_Switzerland.html
I travelled thru Switzerland last year by motorbike. We actually just needed to get to the Black Forest from Austria. We had to by a vignette for using the motorways as in Austria. However, In Austria you can get one for just 10 days. In Swizerland the minimum is 1 year. Never going thru Switzerland by bike or car again, we will avoid the place at all costs. All aother trips will be Germany, Austria or France and avoid Switzerland, their loss.
Edited by silver993tt on Sunday 18th March 11:04
silver993tt said:
I travelled thru Switzerland last year by motorbike. We actually just needed to get to the Black Forest from Austria. We had to by a vignette for using the motorways as in Austria. However, In Austria you can get one for just 10 days. In Swizerland the minimum is 1 year. Never going thru Switzerland by bike or car again, we will avoid the place at all costs. All aother trips will be Germany, Austria or France and avoid Switzerland, their loss.
Edited by silver993tt on Sunday 18th March 11:04
Same here I am the organisor of the Honda Euro Tour (Type R cars) we had to buy the vignette last year £18 for a year and only spent 2 days there.
This year we are going again, same £18 vignette, but the routes and passes are out of this world.
definately an anti car nation, We got stopped for 2hours at the border and stopped again for alledged speeding.
turbo5 said:
silver993tt said:
I travelled thru Switzerland last year by motorbike. We actually just needed to get to the Black Forest from Austria. We had to by a vignette for using the motorways as in Austria. However, In Austria you can get one for just 10 days. In Swizerland the minimum is 1 year. Never going thru Switzerland by bike or car again, we will avoid the place at all costs. All aother trips will be Germany, Austria or France and avoid Switzerland, their loss.
Edited by silver993tt on Sunday 18th March 11:04
Same here I am the organisor of the Honda Euro Tour (Type R cars) we had to buy the vignette last year £18 for a year and only spent 2 days there.
This year we are going again, same £18 vignette, but the routes and passes are out of this world.
definately an anti car nation, We got stopped for 2hours at the border and stopped again for alledged speeding.
well, we were only in Switzerland for about 4 hours, a complete rip off and both gas stations where we were stopped were very rude to us. One when we enquired about a cheaper vignette and the other when in a complete rainstorm, the gast station manager wouldn't let us keep our bikes under the canopy.
Never again for us, there are just as stunning if not more stunning passes in Italy, Austria and France - friendlier people, much better food and less than half the price.
From the website:
"Word is that the Swiss government are unlikely to stop at just this. Publishing camera locations via other methods such as the internet, radio and text-services will also be outlawed soon"
Should be interesting to see how they try and control the internet, perhaps time to pick up some tips from countries like China ...
On the other hand given the Swiss democratic system, their citizens can force a referendum on the issue of banning Speed Cameras - would be very interesting to see if anyone starts the collection of the neccessary number of sigantures.
Perhaps I am being thick here, but this just means you have to invent some software that works out the mileage the cameras are at on your trip and then prints it out for you.
"Word is that the Swiss government are unlikely to stop at just this. Publishing camera locations via other methods such as the internet, radio and text-services will also be outlawed soon"
Should be interesting to see how they try and control the internet, perhaps time to pick up some tips from countries like China ...
On the other hand given the Swiss democratic system, their citizens can force a referendum on the issue of banning Speed Cameras - would be very interesting to see if anyone starts the collection of the neccessary number of sigantures.
Perhaps I am being thick here, but this just means you have to invent some software that works out the mileage the cameras are at on your trip and then prints it out for you.
Edited by 2something on Monday 19th March 20:43
Reading the german pdf on the ASTRA website, it is only POIs in Switzerland that are banned. But this is very useful to know as it's sure to catch a lot of foreigners out who happily download the Swiss POIs for their event free trip to the alps ...
www.news-service.admin.ch/NSBSubscriber/message/attachments/6995.pdf
www.news-service.admin.ch/NSBSubscriber/message/attachments/6995.pdf
Edited by 2something on Monday 19th March 20:50
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