Sat Navs, don't you just love them??

[leeds]

On my way across to NT and currently at Georgetown.

I own and use a variety of sat navs, Garmin, Tom Tom amd now an Aussie Navman. When navigator is with me she can run Ozi explorer on the tough book. Normally have the route options set at midway between shortest distance and fastest time.

When I do a long haul I like to break the journey into shorter sections so that you (mentally) appear to be getting somewhere.

Anyway last night I put in Katherine from Georgetown and it fired up distance as 2500 km and a driving time of 31.10 hours. Now I know Australia is big but it is not that big. The directions then told me to go back to the road and turn left which was the directionI just come from.

Altered the options to shortest distance and got 1626 km and a driving time of 30.42 hours. In my books 30.42 hours is faster then 31.10 hours.

I have had sat navstry to send me up bridle ways, try to get me to drive down creeks, cut across railway cuttings where there has never been a bridge, drive down pack horse tracks etc.

Sat Navs, dont you just love them?

Remember sat nav is for the guidance of the wise and not for the obedience of fools. Keep hold of your paper maps folks


Regards

Brendan

[snowbound]

Ah! The trick is to tell it that you are in a Hilux! That way it keeps you ON the road! If it knows you're in a LR then it goes to the default setting : Go anywhere at any time. ;)

[dmdigital]

Yes they are good, first day traveling home with the new Puma mine told me my maximum speed reached was 356kph:eek:

I knew I shouldn't have asked for the Bugatti option;)


The other trick is to get it so lost on a remote track that the Garmin recalculates to the point of "Insufficient Memory" and locks up! :D

[CowsGoMoo]

Mine instucted me to make a sharp left turn while halfway across the Sydney Harbour Bridge....

Though it best to ignore it at the time....:cool:

[Tote]

I've got an Ipaq running Tomtom and it is very good. the only couple of anomalies I've found are when I was in the US where it tried to get me to go 160KM out of my way to get on a freeway for a faster trip when it was set to shortest time. Setting it to shortest distance cut the distance from 600Km to about 250 but it seemed to think that 250Km of secondary roads would take six hours plus.
The other funny one is that it refuses to acknowledge that you can get from Molong to Dubbo via Cumnock and Yeoval and it repeatedly tries to send you to either the Mitchell Hwy or the Newell until you are about 6Km out of Dubbo.

Regards,
Tote

[waynep]

Yes my Ipaq with Tom Tom tells me to turn right and drive over the cliff going over the Black Spur.
When it starts doing that I switch it over to OxiExplorer - at least that is accurate even if you don't get the nice English lady telling you where to go.

[loanrangie]

Yes my Ipaq with Tom Tom tells me to turn right and drive over the cliff going over the Black Spur.
When it starts doing that I switch it over to OxiExplorer - at least that is accurate even if you don't get the nice English lady telling you where to go.

I have the latest TomTom V7 and the maps are a vast improvement over the old ones, i usually have Ozi Osbourne telling me where to go stutter and all.
Ozi Ex is more accurate if you know where you are going or can read a map.

[p38arover]

I find they work well until you really need them, then, as any female navigator does, it gets lost and confused.

That's why my wife and I call my wife's unit "lady map". She gets very insistent when I ignore her useless (lady map, that is :) instructions - hmm, thinking about it, I could remove "lady map" from that and it would still read correctly no matter how you took the meaning. :D ).

[bittersweet]

Yes my Ipaq with Tom Tom tells me to turn right and drive over the cliff going over the Black Spur.
When it starts doing that I switch it over to OxiExplorer - at least that is accurate even if you don't get the nice English lady telling you where to go.

Trouble is when Bren switches over to OziExplorer he has the bossy English madam telling him where to go and woe betide him if he ignores her.:bangin::bangin:
B :angel: