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| From | "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | aus.computers |
| Subject | Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions |
| Date | 2015-12-10 17:50 +1100 |
| Message-ID | <dcsllfF7sclU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <dcrus0F31srU1@mid.individual.net> <dcs0onF3einU1@mid.individual.net> <tnjh6b56civdm2jdug85l79s1ti58g5vnf@4ax.com> <dcsci9F5tofU1@mid.individual.net> <7d3i6blo3q7djijb4adncvv456pa34nfn5@4ax.com> |
"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7d3i6blo3q7djijb4adncvv456pa34nfn5@4ax.com... > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:15:00 +1100, "Rod Speed" > <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote >>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote >> >>>>>> The best for main cities is a UBD map can probably >>>>>> email you one but it's a bit over a gig (my upload >>>>>> speed is pathetic) has all major cities/capitals in Australia. >> >>>>> Don't worry, google maps works fine for me thanks. >> >>>> The big advantage with using the phone is that it shows you >>>> where you are so you don't have to bother checking the street >>>> signs to see where you are and can get it to tell you were to go >>>> so you don't have to keep looking at the map as you walk around. >> >>> For walking around yes can't beat it. >> >>> Driving a different matter IMO, prefer the map >> >>I'd never go back to a map again for driving. >>You can't even look at that map when driving. > Yes you need a map reader, who can read Mate of mine who can't actually use the GPS himself, maintains that the TomTom's main advantage is that it eliminates fights over the what the map is saying. > The UBD has all the trafic lights marked, so > it is easier than my Tom Tom which isn't bad I'd rather have turn by turn directions over a passenger reading a map. >>And the best of the turn by turn navigation systems >>like google maps is much better with congestion >>alone, being able to route you around congestion >>which it works out by observing the movement of >>all the mobile phones via the base station reports. >> >>Street view can be handy too. I knew what Central >>Station looked like and it was handy to check that >>on the street view to check that the external >>appearance hadn't changed before going back >>there decades later etc. >> >>That is one area where google maps needs real >>improvement tho, it should be telling you what >>lane you need to be in well before you must be >>in a particular lane. Currently it doesn't do that. > Yeah the turn off, from South Dowling, is just after the tunnel > before the Eastern Distributor, no warning! That takes you to > a goat track bumper to bumper 30 minute "run" to Fitzror St >>Some of the dedicated GPS apps do tho but >>those are obscenely expensive apps, like $50 etc. >> >>> and if you have a Germin GPS you can rig to a lap top >> >>Sure, but I think its much better to use >>a tablet in a mount on the dash instead. > > It is but still not as good as a intelligent > navigator reading your map I don't agree with something like google maps that can route you around congestion. No matter how intelligent the human navigator reading a map is, they can't see what the congestion ahead is.
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