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HelloI scanned all the GPS questions and none seemed to cover this. Doesn't anyone use a map anymore? What got me going is the story in this month's Popular Mechanics. "Could you drive 1000 miles without GPS? ". Sad, people today trust those 'devil' gadgets with their souls. I've been a passenger where someone took 2 hours to get to a 45 minute destination. Somehow they had it set to no bridges or something equally stupid. I am prejudiced on this issue being a mapaholic. Love them, read them planning future rides. can't stand that voice reminding me more than my wife about the next turn. I hope the satellites all fall out of orbit. While you are watching that screen, you are missing something interesting.Just my take on it. Pop
HelloI hope the satellites all fall out of orbit. While you are watching that screen, you are missing something interesting.Just my take on it. Pop
I do not believe in looking at a GPS screen, or any other distracting display, while riding. I use Copilot as a map when needed, by stopping, getting out my phone, and looking at where I am. The GPS part of it puts a dot on the map for my current position, and I can pan and zoom to see all the map information I need. Copilot lets me download maps ahead of time so I don't need cell phone service for it to work. I downloaded the maps that cover all of North America in a few minutes one day, and so far I haven't ridden outside that region.
Some omedian said " I have to leave the party when my phone gets down to 10% harge, or I might not be able to find my way home. You drop me two miles from home without my phone and it's like an episode of Survivor for me. "You may have noti ed the letter in the alphabet between b and d is not working on my keyboard, and I'm weary of opying/pasting all the time.
Try that in the middle of Paris or Berlin at night. Good bloody luck !
Ha, luckily it's not likely I'll have to do that. :)
I use paper maps like I have always, I still get there. AND I can still read street signs, how bout that. As far as asking directions, most w/a phone don't have a clue, they follow their phones. I still look at the sun and go that way too, not L & R but N, S, E, W.
In the words of that great philosopher Ace Ventura... "WELL ALRIGHTY THEN !"
I use both. But give me a GPS anytime I need a specific address in a city of any size that I am not familiar with. Stopping to ask for directions is fine in small towns and rural areas, but does not work so well in downtown Denver during the rush hour. One example is when my B-I-L first moved to Durham, NC. He needed some car work done and a coworker suggested a garage. He made an appointment and asked if they could give him directions from his house to the garage. The person responded by saying he has lived in Durham all his life and knew about where the house was but stated there was no way he could begin to give directions, just to confusing. GliderJohn
Wasn't that Aunt Eller in "Oklahoma"?
John , I follow Peter Egan's advice on this . Stay out of any city that shows up in yellow on a map Dusty
Couldn't you just spell copy with a k?