Date:         Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:52:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      GPS in WESTY and watch out for taking Ferry boats
Comments: To: Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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Once while my daughter was in Seattle Area and using freinds car with GPS it
said to go this way while she was trying to go north of Seattle on I-5, turn
here of I-5  take this road nothwest....
Well it was taking her north stota all right but she would had to take to
Washington State ferries and wait at least 1/2 hour at each to board. and
pay over $15 each time. Lucky she called home and asked is this route OK. of
course we said go back to I-5 and keep going North. were she was on I-5 at
that moment the GPS route was shorter for a brief time so it changed
directions. Wonderful
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: GPS in WESTY


> A warning on using the GPS.  I posted a long note a couple of months ago
> after, as an experiment, using my GPS for 90% or better of the navigation
> on
> a 4,000+ mile trip.  Find it for details.  But summed up there are three
> major points to remember:
> First, it can take you on a route you might not prefer so check your map
> ahead of time. And find the option setting that you can tell to avid toll
> roads (if you want to avoid toll roads).
> Second, it can tale you to places that ain't there.  The POI (Points Of
> Interest) files may have a place that is torn down.
> And three, the POI files DON'T have everything or every option in them.
> If
> you are going to rely on the POI files in the GPS then do some online
> research and find the many additional POI files that you can load into
> your
> GPS and select by category.  Like one file out there that has ALL the
> Forest
> Service campgrounds in the  US. (Or at least a whole bunch more than comes
> with the GPS).  Campgrounds are one big shortcoming I've found.  Most
> listed
> are commercial campgrounds and mamy of the commercial campgrounds are not
> in
> the original POI files.
>
> But, when it comes to finding a specific address in a strange town the GPS
> is fantastic.
>