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Joe makes an excellent point. You need to be smarter than the GPS. My new Garmin has some "adaptive" features that want to tailor the routing to your driving style. I had a few strange routes until I found this and turned them off.
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Actually, I think the "updates" point was a valid one...if not for roads, at least for finding restaurants, etc.
The reason I replaced that older Garmin with the new one was because the maps were SO out of date, that on a trip from NH to south Jersey, I kept pulling off the road for restaurants that no longer existed, and I was getting pissed at the time lost.
Those maps were like 6 years old, and a new map download was $80, while a new GPS was $100. I bought the lifetime update from Garmin for $120. 6 weeks after I bought (it had been that price for 2 years) it dropped to something like $80. Even with the updated maps, it still doesn't find everything - like the REI in Greensboro - doesn't have a clue that it is there. Yesterday we searched for the Palladium Cinema in High Point so we could get the number - no deal. But, when we went in under points of interest, it was there but it was spelled Pallidium. Probably outsourced the data entry?
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I purchased the Garmin Nuvi 1300LMT (lifetime maps & traffic updates included). Got it on special at Best Buy for $129.00. I've only had it a few weeks but it's been great so far (used it in Florida and currently on vacation in California). Have not gotten lost yet.
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I just use my Android phone with Google Maps + Navigation. It just got even better with version 5 (using vectors instead of bitmaps so it holds more information of offline use).
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I just use my Android phone with Google Maps + Navigation. It just got even better with version 5 (using vectors instead of bitmaps so it holds more information of offline use). Yeah, but can it talk with a female Australian accent?
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If someone would make the voice data file, yeah. But as it is, it's just a sort of robotic female (which is also hot to me).
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I want one with 7 of 9's voice..."a left turn here is futile"..."a right turn would be acceptable"..."you have reached your irrelevent destination"...
...and when the charge is low..."I must regenerate"....
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If someone would make the voice data file, yeah. But as it is, it's just a sort of robotic female (which is also hot to me). Sweet.
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Wow! Drive across country for 2 and a half days ans POOF! Two pages of info to go thru. Thanks everybody.
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*reads back through thread*
Holy smokes! We were helpful for TWO WHOLE PAGES!!
That's a first.
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