Re: Dow
- From: Scotty <nobody@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:46:30 +0200
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:48:43 -0500, "The Fifeshire Bimbo"
<htr.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Scotty" <nobody@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
"Séimí mac Liam" <gwyddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From the information in your other post, I'd say rent what suitsyour
fancy. You won't be doing enough driving to have milage make a
difference. Order one of these
http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10096
for the states in which you'll be driving, forget the gps and gift
them
to your US relatives when you leave. These are definitively the
best
state maps in the US. Make the trip as soon as you're able, gas is
under
two dollars a gallon at the moment.
Ya, I was going to add earlier, a gps bought in the UK typically
wont have the
US detailed maps and vice versa. Garmin in particular are difficult.
When my nephew was here from *ngland in September, he used his Garmin
and it worked wonderfully. We never got lost once :)
B,
You are right, Garmin includes a "world map" in the unit but because of limited
storage space there isn't much detail or updates like new roads, suburbs ,
detours etc. and can't be updated.
Of the "moans and groans" that I read on "sci.geo.satellite-nav", the main
complaint seems to be customer relations. They have a complicated licensing
policy that limits the number of times that the software can be installed (eg.
if you buy a new desktop computer etc.) which also precludes selling/passing it
on to family or on eBay when you upgrade and causes numerous installation
problems.
To Charles,
There are many groups where you can probably get good recommendations, including
specific manufactures like :
alt.satellite.gps.tomtom
alt.satellite.gps.garmin
alt.satellite.gps.magellan.
Tom Tom appears to be the flavour of the month, but it must be said that there
is very little difference in the performance of recent consumer grade GPSs.
Newer mobiles include GPS and use Google Earth for maps. I don't read the above
groups but do read several others, like:-
alt.satellite.gps, sci.engr.surveying, sci.geo.cartography,
comp.infosystems.gis, sci.geo.satellite-nav.
Séimí has given probably the best advice, so far.
I have 2 Trimble GPSs and nearly a dozen OEM boards by Motorola, Novatel, uBlox
and Garmin (circa 1994). None of them are used for navigation so I don't have
any advice specific to your needs.
In case you are wondering, I use them for precision position fixing (typically
less than a foot) and to correct my two atomic clocks which have an accuracy
measured by a number with 12 zeroes. When one is approaching the age of Conway,
every second counts....
I once navigated a small boat (36ft) across the Atlantic before the advent of
GPS, so you can add three sextants and a chronometer to my list of "boy's toys".
.
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