GPS
May 13, 2017 10:30:40 #
I now use an app called PocketEarth. Excellent routing and you can make changes as you wish. Also can hold maps offline.
May 13, 2017 11:01:34 #
I rode with a techie friend of mine on a recent trip, and his device never got us within 40 blocks of our destinations. I guess that's why they have street signs. I suppose we will all be lost when those systems get hacked.
May 13, 2017 11:09:16 #
I find that the google maps app on my android phone is very accurate, probably because it updates daily. It is free!
May 13, 2017 11:39:20 #
nimbushopper wrote:
I believe they will all do that. My Magellan and Garmin do that as well as all the old GPS units I've had in the past. Sometimes they tell me to make a U-turn and go back to where it instructed me to go in the first place.My Garmin recalculates every time I don't follow what it is telling me to do!
May 13, 2017 11:41:11 #
EdJ0307 wrote:
I believe they will all do that. My Magellan and Garmin do that as well as all the old GPS units I've had in the past. Sometimes they tell me to make a U-turn and go back to where it instructed me to go in the first place.
Yes, that is particularly annoying when it keeps saying make a U-turn over and over again!
May 13, 2017 12:23:28 #
nimbushopper wrote:
Yeah, tell me about it. Eventually it will realize I'm not going to do that and then it comes up with a new route.Yes, that is particularly annoying when it keeps saying make a U-turn over and over again!
May 13, 2017 13:23:35 #
I've occasionally wanted a third option for selecting routes. In addition to "shortest" and "quickest", if I'm in an unfamiliar area, I sometimes want a "simplest" option. By "simplest", I mean a route with the fewest turns. Does that make sense to anyone else?
May 13, 2017 13:41:26 #
May 13, 2017 13:55:58 #
Whenever the subject comes up, it brings back to mind the Canadian couple who stopped in my home town for fuel and food as they were passing through, and then disappeared. The wife was found alive, approximately six weeks later, with their vehicle stuck in the mud on some rarely used dirt road in Nevada, and the husband's body was found by hunters many months later, where he had died trying to walk out for help. They were following instructions from a GPS, which knew the road existed, but nothing about the fact that it was little more than a path, and was not maintained. A similar thing happened to a family from SF in the mountains of southern Oregon. The wife and children survived, but the husband died of exposure, trying to walk for help. Thanks, technology!
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May 13, 2017 14:48:30 #
Some years ago, a couple were traveling south near me, and instead of staying on the freeway, they blindly followed their GPS, and it took them on a little used back road where they got stuck in the snow, and the husband died trying to get help. When I got my first GPS I tried it out, and it led me 10 miles north on the freeway and then back down again to the same street I had started from, and then on to my designation. From then on, I was very leery of using it although it helped me find a store once.
May 13, 2017 15:35:12 #
May 13, 2017 16:28:31 #
nimbushopper wrote:
Garmin's updates are ridiculously expensive, and many of the mistakes are still present!
I have 2 Garmins, both have life time free updates, just hook them to a computer, Bob.
May 13, 2017 16:34:11 #
bobmcculloch wrote:
I have 2 Garmins, both have life time free updates, just hook them to a computer, Bob.
My unit is over ten years and when I connect it to my computer they want $65 to update it. It only cost $90 new.
May 13, 2017 17:24:36 #
nimbushopper wrote:
My unit is over ten years and when I connect it to my computer they want $65 to update it. It only cost $90 new.
the new ones are rather interesting, check out Drive Assist 50, I had points on a charge card to offset the price but , it is worth the price depending on where you are driving, dash cam built in, red light camera warning, speed cam warning, collision warning, lane wandering, speed limit shows on screen, LIFETIME MAPS AND TRAFFIC, and you can move it between cars, we both like it, Bob.
May 13, 2017 19:18:28 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Is there a way to make changes to a GPS route on a Garmin GPS? MapQuest gives me three routes - one toll and two back roads. The GPS gives me the toll road and one back road route. I'm wondering if there is a practical way to modify routes. This isn't a big deal because it's a 70-mile trip, but I was wondering if I could get more control of the route.
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