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| Thread ID: 115040 | 2010-12-29 22:54:00 | Latest in car gadgets | coldfront (15814) | PC World Chat |
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| 1165565 | 2010-12-30 23:02:00 | Easy enough - find State Highway 5 and follow it to Taupo :p Unless your on the new arterial road and that really is fun if you are a GPS nerd :D Hearing some people say you dont need a GPS in New Zealand.....Well for some direction obviously not but there are some pluses discovered. For me GPS I always thought was not to navigate streets but to find out your location to tell others and as a back up to the maps and compass, then came the cheaper in car version. With the advent of cellphone emergency callers suddenly were able to ask for help quicker (assuming coverage) and on the open road many do not know where they are. Now with an in car GPS you have that information and can relay it :thumbs: I like the TomTom which has the longitude and latitude on it thats perfect, the Navman gives you a location as well more reliant on map/landmark locations. All to often have I heard of people ringing 111 from a cellphone then saying not sure where we are we passed through such and such town 10 minutes ago etc. From that the emergency centre deploys the nearest help and then that help finds out the location is quite a distance away and then another crew is deployed to that location. In effect wasting time and resources! Frustrating and possibly life threatening! It happens all to often! Now with so many in car GPS around there really is no excuse not to get pinpoint accuracy assuming the people who are using those GPS units are educted to think "I know I will check my GPS to where I am" :thumbs: Got to think outside the square although the negative is still to vision due to poor location and potential distraction as someone is altering a setting whilst driving. |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1165566 | 2010-12-30 23:02:00 | Ever sit in a car while someone is giving you directions to some place they know and you don't?:groan: 'Turn left here' and then 'Go around the white house' and then ' just keep going straight for 20 klics' and then you hear: 'Here we are'. How did you get there? You don't really know since he knows and you were just depending on him to tell you when and where to turn, go, start and stop - and you paid no attention at all since you were consumed with just driving safely. So true and the same basically goes for when you are a passenger. You don't usually pay much attention to the navigating. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1165567 | 2010-12-30 23:47:00 | Unless your on the new arterial road and that really is fun if you are a GPS nerd :D Hearing some people say you dont need a GPS in New Zealand.....Well for some direction obviously not but there are some pluses discovered. For me GPS I always thought was not to navigate streets but to find out your location to tell others and as a back up to the maps and compass, then came the cheaper in car version. With the advent of cellphone emergency callers suddenly were able to ask for help quicker (assuming coverage) and on the open road many do not know where they are. Now with an in car GPS you have that information and can relay it :thumbs: I like the TomTom which has the longitude and latitude on it thats perfect, the Navman gives you a location as well more reliant on map/landmark locations. All to often have I heard of people ringing 111 from a cellphone then saying not sure where we are we passed through such and such town 10 minutes ago etc. From that the emergency centre deploys the nearest help and then that help finds out the location is quite a distance away and then another crew is deployed to that location. In effect wasting time and resources! Frustrating and possibly life threatening! It happens all to often! Now with so many in car GPS around there really is no excuse not to get pinpoint accuracy assuming the people who are using those GPS units are educted to think "I know I will check my GPS to where I am" :thumbs: Got to think outside the square although the negative is still to vision due to poor location and potential distraction as someone is altering a setting whilst driving. Problem is on the SI if your lost out in the boonies yes a GPS will tell you where you are but that's useless as you won't be able to phone anyone due to the crap cellphone coverage from Telecom, Vodafone and 2D. So unless you can find a house in which case the owners can tell you where you are (so no GPS needed there) you won't be able to tell the emergency services your lost. Yes I own a handheld GPS but refuse to get a car one, the handheld one is so I can go back to places I have discovered in the bush such as caves as the entrances can be very difficult to find or even re find in the future |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1165568 | 2010-12-31 00:12:00 | satnav units are cheap as chips, but a GPS you can use in the bush costs an arm & a leg. I have a really poor sense of direction, so I only go bush with other people who know the area really well & we usually take the dogs with GPS collars. | Greven (91) | ||
| 1165569 | 2010-12-31 00:13:00 | Nah my etrexH that works in dense bush only cost $125 last Christmas | gary67 (56) | ||
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