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| Thread ID: 125855 | 2012-07-23 21:28:00 | GPS Units - Route planning | tingle (6539) | PC World Chat |
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| 1290304 | 2012-07-24 08:07:00 | On the Navman, you add places you want to go as 'waypoints'. I have never used them, but the online manual details the method. My unit is a Navman MY55. Like B T, I had to wonder at the need to look at screen, mine tells me all I want to know. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1290305 | 2012-07-24 08:16:00 | I cant hear mine over the stereo....... | Metla (12) | ||
| 1290306 | 2012-07-24 08:28:00 | I cant hear mine over the stereo....... One earbud for GPS, other ear for stereo/useful road noises, reasonable compromise :P |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1290307 | 2012-07-24 09:53:00 | No room for compromise. It has to be metal, It has to be loud. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1290308 | 2012-07-24 10:22:00 | I've said this before. Trying to follow the screen whilst driving is too distracting!!!!!!!!! Once my tomtom xl has picked up the satellites I place it between the front seats and just follow the verbal commands. |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 1290309 | 2012-07-24 10:28:00 | No room for compromise. It has to be metal, It has to be loud. The only way to travel...... |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 1290310 | 2012-07-24 16:04:00 | I don't understand how youse guys (that's singular: 'yousses' is plural) would use a GPS - not in the East-West direction anyway . We have freeways here that are wider than the whole of New Zealand . I can understand North-South since youse can't see each other if youse stands on opposite ends of that island . But East-West just ain't necessary . If youse (or yousses) go more than a few hundred meters/metres/yards (pretty close to the same) East, yousses gets yousses foots wet . Same with going West - wet foots - and the Australian navy snipers will shoot at youse 'cause they think youse is gonna try swimming to sneak into their country . The wife is calling me to take my medications now . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1290311 | 2012-07-24 20:21:00 | The wife is calling me to take my medications now. Pity the Batman boy didn't do the same, yo is right we are a small country, but we sho don't have an endless supply of nutters. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1290312 | 2012-07-24 21:06:00 | Pity the Batman boy didn't do the same, yo is right we are a small country, but we sho don't have an endless supply of nutters. Youse guys got yousses 2-percent too. It's just a lower head count in Upsidedown Land. 2-percent of a bazillion people here is a heck of a lot more than 2-percent of all the people including those man-eating parrots yousses got there. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1290313 | 2012-07-24 21:31:00 | After your route and waypoints are loaded, any GPS worthy of the name should give you voice instructions, so there is no need to read the screen once you are on the road. Take the time to get familiar with the device, and do some triial runs over familiar roads with multiple way-points set up. You'll soon get the hang of it. I programmed mine in Tauranga recently for one stop in Tauranga itself then five different addresses in Manurewa and it handed in a faultless performance. I did a round the houses in Melbourne a few months back too and it was perfect. Cheers Billy 8-{) Once again, thanks people! Billy, what GPS unit do you use? We definitely tested the Garmin but could find no way to run through the complete list of waypoints we had entered, it would only allow us to do them one at a time. The Garmin help desk was a waste of time. Very rarely look at the device, I also just listen to the instructions which I can hear over my easy listening music Metla ;-) We will be surveying/capturing every road in NZ so we need something to tell the driver where to turn on our preplanned routes. |
tingle (6539) | ||
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