Thread: any hints on a GPS?

My experience with car nav systems has been almost totally negative.

Because I'm not exactly sure how (in the dark) to get to my son's place in Newcastle, I thought I'd use my iPaq 1930 with Destinator PN to guide me.

What a bloody annoying joke! What a waste of space! What a waste of time! What a thoroughly annoying piece of crap!

During the trip, the system would suddenly decide my position was slightly off the motorway and start telling me to do U-turns or right turns or left turns - whatever was necessary to get me back to the motorway (which I'd never left).

When I arrived in Newcastle, it gave accurate directions - although 200 metres too late) on where to turn (until it came to a right turn which had become a no right turn since the maps were published). Naturally, didn't turn right so it had to recalculate a route (actually, it was continually recalculating routes because its instructions to turn usually arrived after I'd passed the turn-off).

By the time I'd got near where my son lived it was lost. The streets were close together and the continual loss of position of 50-100 metres meant it had no idea how to calcualte a route. The fact that the iPaq couldn't recalculate fast enough to enable instructions before I'd passed it's calculated turn meant it was worthless.

I wouldn't waste my money on a nav system! They are a gimmick.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

My experience with car nav systems has been almost totally negative.

Because I'm not exactly sure how (in the dark) to get to my son's place in Newcastle, I thought I'd use my iPaq 1930 with Destinator PN to guide me.

What a bloody annoying joke! What a waste of space! What a waste of time! What a thoroughly annoying piece of crap!

During the trip, the system would suddenly decide my position was slightly off the motorway and start telling me to do U-turns or right turns or left turns - whatever was necessary to get me back to the motorway (which I'd never left).

When I arrived in Newcastle, it gave accurate directions - although 200 metres too late) on where to turn (until it came to a right turn which had become a no right turn since the maps were published). Naturally, didn't turn right so it had to recalculate a route (actually, it was continually recalculating routes because its instructions to turn usually arrived after I'd passed the turn-off).

By the time I'd got near where my son lived it was lost. The streets were close together and the continual loss of position of 50-100 metres meant it had no idea how to calcualte a route. The fact that the iPaq couldn't recalculate fast enough to enable instructions before I'd passed it's calculated turn meant it was worthless.

I wouldn't waste my money on a nav system! They are a gimmick.

Ron

Signal problem? My handheld GPS gets signal intermittently in the Defender unless I have an external antenna plugged in.

Cheers
Simon

My mio 168 digiwalkger gave me great sevice with copilot live in it and as it was a pda it also ran oziexplorer ce all this for the princley sum of $400 (end of stock sale)

I Just got the mio a701 and its rocking, phone, pda gps all in one...

$700 from fleabay or $999 from jbs hifi after some "im not paying that much" type haggling.