GPS systems

Posted by: fred

19th Jun 2009 11:47pm

I think that GPS units are very clever things and that they will take off as an easy way to find your way around. Not that expensive and very handy to use. I travelled form Melb to Cairns and back useing different routes each way and it took me as direct as possible to every address that I entered.

lpullman

24th Feb 2010 10:39am

Heh, heh, you live in Adelaide do you? Seems like the taxi drivers here live by the damn things and retire as soon as they have clue where major suburbs are.

I did Adelaide to Melbourne using road book made from Google maps. The only place it got confused in 1,000km was the entrance to the Mornington Freeway.

But the GPS we had along was bloody useless. The moment you got off the main road (and we did a lot) it kept trying to send you backtracking. They are a good thing if you use them as an electronic street map, but always check the route it before you rely on it. Playing around with several we've had some corkers without really trying to confuse it.

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