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rowan · 11-25-2007, 03:46 PM

I use a HP PDA which has GPS/wifi and TomTom bundled, that way it's a standard navigator in the car but it can also do other useful things.

If you have NO idea where you're going then it's probably useful, but the maps will never be 100% accurate or complete (some streets that existed for a year before I bought the device don't exist in my version, and near to home it thinks a closed off road is a T intersection). Most trips of any distance involve one or two freeways nearby so I usually ignore its bleating until I'm closer to the destination.

One annoying quirk of the tomtom software is that if it thinks you're off the road (eg set back on a long driveway) it will stop giving you routing instructions and just indicate that you should move to the road. This by itself isn't a problem, but once I start venturing further out into rural areas the line of the road on the map doesn't seem to match where I'm actually driving, which means it could stop giving directions for several minutes at a time. I was once driving west for about 15 minutes "off the road" (according to the nav) when I should have actually been going north.

11-25-2007, 03:46 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	I use a HP PDA which has GPS/wifi and TomTom bundled, that way it's a standard navigator in the car but it can also do other useful things. If you have NO idea where you're going then it's probably useful, but the maps will never be 100% accurate or complete (some streets that existed for a year before I bought the device don't exist in my version, and near to home it thinks a closed off road is a T intersection). Most trips of any distance involve one or two freeways nearby so I usually ignore its bleating until I'm closer to the destination. One annoying quirk of the tomtom software is that if it thinks you're off the road (eg set back on a long driveway) it will stop giving you routing instructions and just indicate that you should move to the road. This by itself isn't a problem, but once I start venturing further out into rural areas the line of the road on the map doesn't seem to match where I'm actually driving, which means it could stop giving directions for several minutes at a time. I was once driving west for about 15 minutes "off the road" (according to the nav) when I should have actually been going north.