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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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1290324	2012-07-25 05:55:00	Billy, what GPS unit do you use? Navman, with the 'English UK' speaking option enabled. The latter produces some odd street names such as Poo-Puke (as in upchuck) for 'Pupuke' and T-U-I for Tui. Why it doesn't have an 'English NZ' vocab for us I don't know, given that the parent company started here in Auckland not five minutes from my front door. I hardly ever use mine, I know my way around pretty much everywhere so a quick look at the Road Atlas gets me on track in the final stages. I do use one in Australian cities though, it is hard enough driving through the pedestrians, skateboarders, roller=skaters, cyclists, trams and the odd Holden driver (very odd) without having to watch where you are going as well. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1290325	2012-07-25 06:46:00	If your GPS is anything like mine, I'd pay more attention to it than routes that you believe that you know better . Ours will tell us of delays, roadblocks and traffic patterns and I've had mine take me off a perfectly good freeway running at 80 MPH to run a surface street at 35 MPH and I'd think it's nuts . But then, getting home I find out that the freeway I wanted to run had a major accident on it and the GPS helped me avoid that problem . Sure, if all that information is available the GPS can be a blessing . However, in upside-down NZ and Aus it isn’t always available . The reason I’ve been trying to find a way of setting a route from where you’ve been is that my Daughter worked on the outskirts of Brisbane and it was about 26km from her home to work . Now she generously allowed Dad to use her car during the day when he was visiting as long as he picked her up after work . :D Well, marking Home and Work was no problem but the route she took, having done the trip a 1000 times, was half the time the GPS could do it in . Frankly, you couldn’t expect a GPS to calculate a route using all the little side streets that she found over the years . :D So, the question remains, can one get a Car GPS to do what a Boat GPS does as a normal function? :confused:	B.M. (505)
1290326	2012-07-25 06:59:00	OK - maybe I understand that a little better. There are settings in my GPS that allow me to use several modes for the route. 1) Shortest distance (for mileage) 2) Quickest route (for time) 3) Most scenic 4) Most direct. 5) Most economical (for gas I think) This can be super counter-intuitive but I found to believe it! 6) Accept traffic warnings from authorities (re-routes and detours; this may not be the shortest, but is the most expeditious route) Then there's the walking and bicycling mode too. That's my Garmin Nuvi 1300.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1290327	2012-07-25 07:45:00	Have a Chinese clone with IGO Primo and does all sorts of things and has the best looking software but low end build quality (get what you pay for) Have had a play around with TomTom and Garmin with Tomtom the simplest to operate and best build and adherence qualities	Lawrence (2987)
1290328	2012-07-25 08:12:00	THIS ^^^ I gotta call you on. There is a big difference in AUTOMATIC and SEMI-AUTOMATIC weapons. No way did he have an AUTOMATIC weapon. This is the same knee jerk reporting that the media does. They say AUTOMATIC when they have no idea what a full-automatic weapon is and they report every gun, slingshot with a clip or a drum as automatic. FWIW: It is illegal to own, buy, build or use an automatic weapon - except in Montana. They actually build them here for sale somewhere up near Kalispell - but they are not allowed out of the state and it immediately becomes a federal offense. One can also buy silencers here too. I know --- I too was amazed. And NO. SurferJoe does not own- nor want to own- a machine gun. As a clay target shooter, who user's a Beretta semi auto, I am aware of difference, we tend to say auto here, for short, this what a semi can do, so don't worry about the auto. www.youtube.com	Cicero (40)
1290329	2012-07-25 09:03:00	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. Did you know that we had a bigger coastline than youse guys.	mikebartnz (21)
1290330	2012-07-25 09:06:00	As a clay target shooter, who user's a Beretta semi auto, I am aware of difference, we tend to say auto here, for short, this what a semi can do, so don't worry about the auto. www.youtube.com Ok you have convinced me I want one now.	mikebartnz (21)
1290331	2012-07-25 14:17:00	Did you know that we had a bigger coastline than youse guys . It's just more convoluted, that's all . There's also two great big countries lying on the North and South side of our getting to the beach too .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1290332	2012-07-25 21:27:00	OK - maybe I understand that a little better . There are settings in my GPS that allow me to use several modes for the route . 1) Shortest distance (for mileage) 2) Quickest route (for time) 3) Most scenic 4) Most direct . 5) Most economical (for gas I think) This can be super counter-intuitive but I found to believe it! 6) Accept traffic warnings from authorities (re-routes and detours; this may not be the shortest, but is the most expeditious route) Then there's the walking and bicycling mode too . That's my Garmin Nuvi 1300 . Have not read the entire thread but if thats included on that model then yes on many other cheaper models that option is not available . On a trip to New Plymouth to Pick up a Car we tried 3 models of GPS Tomtom, Navaman and Garmin . Not one of them choose the same route and the Garmin at one point was instructing us to turn around even though I knew that I was going the correct direction before finally it yeilded to the direction of travel being correct . Return trip was just as interesting and the routings were differant from the units! Following an unfamiler route in two cars in the dark proved interesting especially since at a junction we were directed two differant ways that ran parallel to a river . Did not realise until to late that the headlingts I thought I would catch up with were actually going another direction! Zero cellphone coverage makes that fun!	coldfront (15814)
1290333	2012-07-25 22:37:00	Only criticism I have of my Navman, that despite downloading the latest maps it still does not know of the Taupo bypass. The map just shows a white area until we get to the airport end, if travelling south. Takes a while for her to stop saying "Perform a U-turn when possible" too. Could also do with some improvement on the pronunciation of NZ and other names, such as Moir St in Mangawhai, which comes out in French, for some reason as Mwah. Other than that saves my bacon (and temper) when trying to negotiate Auckland.	Richard (739)
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