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 Post subject: GPS
PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:26 pm 
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My wife and I drive a lot of places, High School Sports events(grandkids), vacations and visiting in and out of Ca. For the past 2-3 years our kids wanted to get a GPS. I always told them we did not need a GPS "your mother can read maps good". Well last :D week we bought a Garmin 1350T. It is amazing. We spent yeasterday driving to known locations, 20-30 miles from home, using the GPS. It never miss a street or turn.


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 Post subject: Re: GPS
PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:35 pm 
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Aligator wrote:
It never miss a street or turn.


Last year while at Joe s place for the shoot, mine took me down a unpaved road into a field. If I kept going on the other side of the field was the road I was looking for.
It took me 10 minutes out of the way for what would have been 3 minutes if I followed the directions I was given.

I will still use my GPS but I won't go it without a map for backup.

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 Post subject: GPS
PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:52 am 
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We use a gps in our vehicles and I have a delorme P20 for hiking/hunting and always make sure to have extra batterys and a compass with me at all times when in the woods. As for the car gps at times has taken less than what we would call the best routes but always worked out fine and is exellent to have when going on a trip. :D

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As a full time and (labled) profesional truck driver, in an ever increasingly digital and electronic world i could go on for days about this subject!!!! It's really pretty simple for me. The gps is a very wonderful tool for guidance, ecspecially in foriegn areas you've never been... It sets right there on the dash and instructs you step by step turn by turn.... I don't own one, have used several.... typicaly preplanning is the best tool. Know your route before you start. Keeping the map handy is important. Check out google,(map link at top left of google home page) the interactive map has an impressive zoom level and a sattelite veiw!!!! With the zoom and sattelite veiw I can look at intersections ( to determine size and room necasary to make a turn) freeway interchanges(to depict which lane i need to be in for safe entrance and exits) Ever been in the right lane to find out your exit is on the left?????? this is dangerous!!!! I can look at parkin lots to see which ones i fit in and which ones i don't b 4 i get there and end up cuasing a traffic jam!!!!!! Google is a great tool and pre-planning is the key....

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:37 am 
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Your right, I still print a map for back-up. This week-end we went to Reno, Nv. I had to quilify at the pistol range which was about 25 miles north of Reno in the desert. My GPS took me right there to the gate at the range.


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