Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:41:56 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: What are my best PC GPS options?
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dear all
we are using goole maps on the macbookpro
some limitations to be sure ...
recently while being towed the driver used is gps to locate a place we were
going to
i asked him what version he had ... Garmin ... he said and .... very happy
used to be he had tom tom and he said it was useless ..
always limited always arriving at the wrong location ...
lots of wrong directions ...
then he said the kicker ...
when he arrives with misinformation from garmin he emails them and tells
them so ...
has received free upgrades in 3 month blocks for sometime into the future
...
for offering them the much coveted update corrected information ...
we we likely get a garmin (which seems to be a boaters most preferred as
well)
yours
On Jan 16, 2008 7:58 AM, Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a Garmin handheld GPS (which was stolen) --- it would work with a
> laptop but I didn't like the cumbersomeness (if that is indeed a word) of
> the arrangement. And the display on the GPS unit itself was way too small
> for my aging eyes.
>
> My stepson recently bought a TomTom One for his car --- I've borrowed it a
> number of times and I'm sold. They're about $250 Cdn --- nice big screen
> that I can read while driving and a really good touchscreen interface that
> is also usable while driving. Coverage and accuracy is good --- I have
> both
> found and been navigated to some pretty obscure addresses and locations.
> And
> it is sooo much more convenient than messing around with a laptop.
>
> Don't know for sure about the backroads coverage but my experience with
> the
> TomTom is that if you can find the road on a map it's going to be in the
> TomTom. May not apply to the backroads of BC --- but worth checking into.
> My
> experience with the logging/backroads of BC when I lived there is that I
> could find them on a map and they had names/designations --- which
> suggests
> to me that they'd be in the TomTom. YMMV of course...........
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
> Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
>
>
> On 1/15/08, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm glad to hear that Delorme has improved the coverage in Canada. The
> > issue Dave was trying to address is coverage in more remote areas,
> > specifically he was asking about the interior of BC. Here in the States
> I
> > didn't have any complaints about the coverage on the Delorme. But on a
> > trip
> > two years ago I ran the laptop most every day for three weeks. I
> > alternated
> > between Streets & Trips and Delorme software. And I'll stick to my
> > opinion
> > that the Delorme software sucks, a really bad user interface for any
> > searching or planning. I found it very frustrating and ended up using
> > only
> > Streets & Trips for the last week of the trip. But, given that, I found
> > both
> > very poor for use in town. Both got lost and gave wrong directions when
> > driving in traffic if the signal was lost for a few seconds. If you
> > pulled
> > up to a stop light neither could figure out what direction you were
> going
> > when standing still and started providing directions that were all
> wrong.
> > In a severe test, getting to a friends place in Kennsington, Ca. (next
> to
> > Berkley) I'd still be driving in circles if I hadn't known where I was
> > going. Summing up so far, unless you have a second person on board to
> act
> > as navigator the laptop based systems fall far short. Dedicated units
> > meant
> > for use in vehicles seem to be a much better solution. BUT, those tend
> to
> > lack the detailed coverage in the boonies, are set up for urban
> > navigation.
> > BTW, to any reading this, I'm all ears for any better solutions that
> have
> > been found. My experience is limited at this point.
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2008 11:48 AM, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know what year the DeLorme software you tried was from but the
> > > 2008 version has greatly increased Canadian coverage. I used the 2008
> > > Street Atlas Plus and even the small streets (and phone numbers) in
> > > Almonte as well as Head of St. Margaret's Bay and Halifax were shown.
> > > Apparently, all of Canada is shown that way but those places are where
> I
> > > really used it. The version I had before that only showed "most" of
> > > Canada's main highways.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.dougalcock.com
>
--
roger w
There are two kinds of jobs in the world:
Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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