On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 11:09:25, Anne B <***@btinternet.com>
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Post by Anne BI wouldn't trust a satnav as far as I could throw the car.
Oh, I find them quite fun. I called mine Sandra.
Post by Anne BI have only three times tried to use mine to take me to a specific
address, and on all three occasions it has taken me to the wrong street
(one of them a kilometre from the right place).
That's where I _have_ found them useful - finding a specific address I
don't know when I get close to it. I wouldn't use them to plot a long
journey - I too prefer a road atlas for that.
Post by Anne BIt is incapable of finding the 'shortest' route and regularly tells me
how to go via a much longer route which may be quicker, but that is not
what I want.
There's usually a setting somewhere, where you can pick whether you want
the quickest, shortest, or cheapest.
Post by Anne BIt is also incapable of finding the quickest route if the quickest
route doesn't happen to be on A and B class roads.
Yes, they do have a preference for those. Or motorways.
Post by Anne BIt consistently fails to find a certain C class road which is on one of
my regular journeys until it is actually on it.
And it would send me down dirt tracks, farm roads and paths and up
precipices and across fields and dykes and into forests with locked
gates at the entrance.
Ah, they're infamous for that. I've only had it once or twice - see
http://255soft.uk/SatNav/ - which, considering it was cheapest I could
find (no updates), I don't mind at all.
Post by Anne BIt has never managed to warn me about any traffic jam where I have
actually been held up for a significant length of time, and it often
warns me about jams, roadworks and delays that don't exist.
Ah, you have a fancy one that connects to mobile data for such things.
Sometimes I've let my blind friend use Google Maps on her iPhone to
navigate, and that's pretty good in that respect.
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Post by Anne BIt's quite nice to have a map to glance at, especially when I am
driving along a road that isn't in its database and the poor thing
jumps about frantically all over the place trying to work out how to
direct me. It is especially entertaining on the Aberdeen Western
Peripheral Route and the Queensferry Crossing :)
My entertaining stretch used to be the A1 in the north of England (well,
south of the Tyne); a few years ago they rebuilt it a couple of hundred
yards to the side of where it used to be, for quite a long stretch; so
when travelling along it, my SatNav with the old maps was convinced I
was ploughing through the fields alongside. (Sadly I've broken it and
bought a new one.)
Post by Anne BIt came as standard with the car. I would never have shelled out extra
for one.
Anne B
Interesting; since it claims (however uselessly) to know about traffic
(mine doesn't - built-in maps only), it must connect to mobile data
somehow. Do you have to pay some sort of annual fee for the connection?
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