Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:29:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Marc Sayer <marcsayer@HUGHES.NET>
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From:         Marc Sayer <marcsayer@HUGHES.NET>
Subject:      Re: GPS recommendations?
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Tom Tom has a feature called Map Share that allows you to update map
info and to share updates. It only works with certain models but its
well worth getting. All other GPS systems get folks lost trying to find
our house. You end up being sent down a road that dead ends into an old
logging road that hasn't been used in 80 years or so.

Loren Busch wrote:
>  RE: GPS capabilities and limitations
> Keep in mind that although the base maps and POI files contain very generic
> data the way they are handled and presented can be different from Garmin to
> Pioneer to Magellan to Tom Tom.  Most are using data from the same vendor,
> Navteq.  Even the main menus appear the same from model to model BUT what
> capability is made available to the user varies dramatically from model to
> model, even within the same product line.  So determine what your needs and
> expectations are for use in your Vanagon, try to check the units out 'hands
> on' and be prepared to find that some function that you consider basic just
> isn't there because some software designer somewhere  decided 'no one will
> ever need to do that'.
>
>

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Marc Sayer
Journalist, Photographer, Dog Trainer (APDT member #062956)
Board member - Western States Great Dane Rescue Association
Director of Operations & Training - Deaf Dane Rescue Inc.
Oakridge, OR USA

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