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| Thread ID: 105330 | 2009-11-28 00:25:00 | Those who have used GPS | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 834224 | 2009-11-28 00:25:00 | For those who have used GPS. How have your success been? I know GPS with maps are better. As is my Navman. Let's say you went overseas, don't have a foreign map installed. How was your success? Mine has been: Google Map coordinates uploaded by individuals might not be accurate but if you are going to big attractions at least they are big enough that that you can see it and they have sign post up. For instance finding a small hostel or guesthouse or inn might be difficult or an individual restaurant to try out. And if you are going to a crowded place the accuracy could be +/- 10m then you need to stop, spin your head around up and down as it might not be on the ground floor, or it might be via that alley way or via the next alley way block .... many places don't have signpost clearly as NZ's or in a foreign language. Say Asia. Cheers. Edit. While I have a Navman for the car. I have a trekking Garmin 60CSx with the SIRF chip for travel. PS. The Navman cannot work on coordinates so I think it is really a street map only be it walking or driving. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 834225 | 2009-11-28 00:31:00 | I had a Navman but would never buy another one because when I asked questions they didnt even bother to reply to emails on how to update it. Thought it was the patriotic thing to do at the time because of the NZ connection but they can get stuffed. Got Tom Tom its brilliant the clogs sure made it user freindly. They are accurate enough to find a building dont want them too accurate otherwise terrorists will use them in rockets for guidance. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 834226 | 2009-11-28 01:48:00 | After Dad's Garmin got stolen (just weeks after we bought it), he bought a TomTom and finds it great - you can even correct the map. From my (brief) experience with it, addresses were merely metres out. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 834227 | 2009-11-28 02:17:00 | Maps are better, if no maps they are a lot harder to hone in. If I am overseas and someone suggest a good restaurant I can do a keyword search or a temple search and it's there. Without maps I found that I had to do the work in NZ or that I had to get onto a PC with Google Earth to get the coordinates and then manually load them into the GPS. Anyone used GPS via coordinates only overseas? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 834228 | 2009-11-28 02:20:00 | A couple of years ago I purchased Uniden, only because it was selling on special for $199 complete with Aus Map. I was very tentative at the time with it being Uniden as they were not my favourite manufacturer by a long way. Anyway, since then I’ve travelled thousands of miles with it and figure I’ve been to places in Aus the Missionaries haven’t. ;) It has a GPS mode and will tell you your present position down to about 6 decimal points I think. I know it’s deadly accurate and one time, miles from anywhere, it told me I was at my destination and route guidance had finished. Blow me down but there was the gate concealed by trees. If I hadn’t been using it I may still have still been on the Missing Persons file. According to the Handbook it plays music and videos and also stores pictures. Never tried any of those features but may do one day just to see how they work. :lol: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 834229 | 2009-11-28 05:46:00 | Has anyone primarily not used GPS maps but just (hiking terrain) coordinates and trying to locate a specific address like a hostel or a restaurant? How have your success been? | Nomad (952) | ||
| 834230 | 2009-11-30 00:17:00 | Many years ago I had a surplus US Army hand-held and used it for fishing co-ordinates on the open ocean and it worked very well since I could catch the same fish over a period of months until he disappeared. I'm sure the GPS didn't fail. I got lost this last road trip in Smog Lake City, Utah and my bro-in-law had to come find me with his GPS as I didn't have one. If he hadn't found me, I might have had to beg for food by signing on the dotted line to become a Mormon first! He just typed in the two streets where I was and found me in a few minutes. PS: NEVER drive in a city where a prophet has set out all the streets and addresses. That's how they get converts! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 834231 | 2009-11-30 04:04:00 | Quite impressed when the other day,friend clicked on Mitre 10 store,which then tells you where the nearest one was,I don't need one one,but I think I should have one just the same. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 834232 | 2009-11-30 05:25:00 | Needs? Wants? In the same vein, I once asked a very good friend when I saw he was eating mashed potato sandwiches for lunch, "Who made them for him" thinking any working person would surely need something more substantive to eat (he ran a 90# jack hammer) . He said his wife did . I asked him: "Just who wears the pants in your family?" He said: "I don't know - when I get up, she's already dressed" . |
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