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It really is not the GPS, it the lousy maps that the program is using the GPS data.

On one trip in Virginia I was leading, and a friend in his 997 was following. It was lunch time and we decided to find a restaurant with the GPS. I was in the lead and the picked restaurant was punched into my Garmin GPS. It took us into a neighborhood and said to continue but the road stopped at some persons driveway. He said his Porsche GPS was telling him the same thing.

We went back to the road, and picked another restaurant and found sustenance.

It that case, the maps provided to two different makers were simply wrong.

In Boca Raton, Florida I had my brother with me trying to get back to our hotel. My GPS said there was road construction and rerouted us. It took us to a dead end. So I had my brother use his Android phone GPS to find the hotel, and I asked my iPhone to find the hotel.

It was sudden GPS hell, we had three women's voices giving us three different routes and one intersection. Literally on said turn left, one said turn right, and one said go straight. Not one was correct, as we had to try all three options after driving in circles. I finally said screw this, as I could see the hotel on the other side of the bay. We drove by dead reckoning and all of a sudden all three devices agreed on the route.

We were laughing pretty hard, tow long married guys with the voices of three women telling us where to go, and not one was right! It took a man to figure it out.
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