Who needs GPS?`

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:34:40 -0400, "bob fusillo"
wrote:

My Garmin has a mind of its own -- it often takes me someplace one way and
takes me back another. It often goes the least convenient way ( when I know
the route but am trying out the GPS). But it gets me there! In Budapest and
Vienna and Rome etc. I will obey it slavishly.

I've only had a car one once, in Spain. Some Anglophobe Frenchman had
set it to French and we couldn't change it back to Spanish or English,
which didnt help.
However, we got it to show where we were. Navigating through villages
it was good for finding the exit road or at least enabling you to work
towards where the "main" road was.
For major roads it was poor, a couple of motorways were missing and it
went silly ways sometimes, but its a useful adjunct to navigating and
if alone or with someone who cant read a map would be better than
nothing.
--
Mike Reid
UK walking, food, photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site
Spain walking, food, tourism "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
Beginners UK flight sim addons "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:31:28 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

No point in Venice. It will fail the minute you _need_ to get anywhere!

probably depends what sort of GPS
--
Mike Reid
UK walking, food, photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site
Spain walking, food, tourism "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
Beginners UK flight sim addons "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

The Reid wrote:

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:31:28 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

No point in Venice. It will fail the minute you _need_ to get anywhere!

probably depends what sort of GPS

No, it's a general rule in Venice. If you don't need to know where
you're going, you know where you're going. And vice versa!

--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
(don't email yahoo address) usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

Following up to The Reid :

Who want s to know the way off a ridge in a blizzard?

That's the easy bit.

what's the hard bit? The right way?

That's what I was thinking. :-)
Getting off alive.
--
Tim C.

Mixi navigates Paris with a GPS receiver without using a map.

And look where it got him.
--
Tim C.

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:39:12 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

Who want s to know the way off a ridge in a blizzard?

That's the easy bit.

what's the hard bit? The right way?

That's what I was thinking. :-)
Getting off alive.

right.

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--
Mike Reid
UK walking, food, photos "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site
Spain walking, food, tourism "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk"
Beginners UK flight sim addons "http://www.lawn-mower-man.co.uk"

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The Reid wrote:

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:31:28 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

No point in Venice. It will fail the minute you _need_ to get anywhere!

probably depends what sort of GPS

Supposedly TomTom has better maps for Europe while Garmin is better in
North America.

Wasn't the EU going to launch a counterpart to GPS?