Cars & Transportation

GPS systems

Cars & Transportation

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
  • 13th Apr 2010 10:54am

My complaint with Google was the opposite: we took a long route out along the coast and it took some convincing to keep it on the B-roads. The major sticking point was getting it to use the Queeenscliff - Sorento ferry, but once I'd put enough waypoints in it worked like a charm.

If someone on the other side of the world using only freely available road data can manage that for somewhere as obscure as SA and Victoria then GPS's have no excuse for getting it wrong.

Having used both, I think a laptop and a decent mapping app are far better than a GPS. But there is no substitute for someone actually reading the map it provides :-)

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