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We have a Garmin unit for our older cars. Works very well still.
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Paper maps are fine for daylight driving on highways. They suck a lot in a rural area at night looking for the next turn. I was recently in middle of nowhere Missouri at night, and my GPS was wonderful, it told me the next turn was coming up and then as I got closer, it said it is right here.
I was slow to adopt the smart phone technology. I finally got a iPhone, and a few days later I drove over to a business I went to regularly. They had closed that location and moved to 1234 Grand Boulevard. Grand Boulevard in Oklahoma City was the original "ring road" that my grandparents used to take a horse and buggy to go around the city. Now it is a broken up by highways, road that can be just about anywhere. I punched in that address on the sign that said they moved into my iPhone, and I was taken right there. I have not carried a paper map in my car in more years than I can remember. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1699295685.jpg I have these maps framed and on display in my office. The Texas map is cool with no interstates, and the cities that are huge now are tiny. |
One recommendation is to buy something with lifetime maps. You don't want to be paying a $100 annual subscription every year to get updates. Yes thats a thing.
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Did you ever settle on a navi?
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I did - I bought a Garmin Drive 53:
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1240929 It does come with lifetime maps and updates. The PC software for this isn't too intrusive and works well. It's small but readily visible when installed in my truck. I took this thing on a business trip to NY and it did a good job navigating me from Buffalo out to Canandaigua and back and all points in between. It has a great database of useful points of interest (fuel, restaurants, etc). It's pretty intuitive to enter and address and it provides reasonable directions. It does what I need it to... |
Good! I was cleaning up my sister's stuff in my office and found the two Tomtoms I bought for her. Was going to send them to you in case you wanted them.
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The biggest feature they need to change or add is "keep me out of the ghetto" filter. It is happy to re-rout you right through bad parts of town if the interstate is closed. |
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The Garmin Spot gives lots of functionality.
Used a lot in remote Baja California |
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GPS? Smart phone? How could I have possibly survived 80 years without either?
Map & compass..a road Atlas on long trips, and difficult as it is, asking directions...all work. Now to my funny tale. Cindy was being placed in a Rehab center near the Albany, Oregon hospital. RN daughter took our car prior to check in, I guess to make sure paperwork was straight. Returning home, she said I might have trouble finding the place if I hadn't been there before, better let her drive...so, I did, listening (sort of) to her smart phone GPS, which sounded to my old ears like the garbled speaker at Mel's drive-in in the movie "American Grafitti". What a wonderful tour of Albany neighborhoods that I'd never seen before that this unit gave us! Can't remember the number of directed turns from one street to another. Yes, I kept silent...hard for me to stifle my laughter. Finally, we found ourselves on Pacific Boulevard, a busy 4 lane, heading in the wrong compass direction. "Damn! I missed the turn", said my daughter. The turn she missed would have had us cross 2 lanes of busy traffic going the in opposite direction with no signal or even a turn lane to make the turn safer. Finally, I opened my mouth: "Get in the right lane, follow the sign saying "to downtown", go under the overpass, get in the left lane, look for a Hospital direction sign, turn left there, go straight to the damned hospital...the rehab facility will be on the right." Groan...the computer generation...she didn't believe me when I said I knew how to get there...how could somebody who has lived in a nearby town his whole life possibly know how to get to the Albany hospital without ever having used a GPS? Her smart phone had turned a 1/2 hour 20 odd miles drive into a marathon taking about 1 1/4 hour. To top it all off, she got really pissed at me for laughing at her...pointing out that knowing the time and looking at the sun gives a compass direction. I figure I've lived 80 trips around the sun without GPS...I figure I can make it to the finish line without ever having used one. |
On my recent trip back from Palm Springs this summer, I fired upt the GPS and punched in my destination hotel in New Mexico. Before I could get on I-10 it rerouted me way south. There was a major accident on I-10 that some of the others I know said it was a several hour stoppage of traffic from an accident the closed the road. The GPS said it a was a 3 hour delay on I-10. That would have sucked sitting in the high heat for 3 hours or more.
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