A techie type told me that Magellan was top rated. $200 at Costco.

Voice and screen directions and touch screen input.

When I have $200....

Mike

On 1/16/08 10:41 AM, "Roger Whittaker" <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> dear all
> we are using goole maps on the macbookpro
> some limitations to be sure ...
> recently while being towed the driver used is gps to locate a place we were
> going to
> i asked him what version he had ... Garmin ... he said and .... very happy
> used to be he had tom tom and he said it was useless ..
> always limited always arriving at the wrong location ...
> lots of wrong directions ...
> then he said the kicker ...
> when he arrives with misinformation from garmin he emails them and tells
> them so ...
> has received free upgrades in 3 month blocks for sometime into the future
> ...
> for offering them the much coveted update corrected information ...
>
> we we likely get a garmin (which seems to be a boaters most preferred as
> well)
> yours
>
> On Jan 16, 2008 7:58 AM, Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had a Garmin handheld GPS (which was stolen) --- it would work with a
>> laptop but I didn't like the cumbersomeness (if that is indeed a word) of
>> the arrangement. And the display on the GPS unit itself was way too small
>> for my aging eyes.
>>
>> My stepson recently bought a TomTom One for his car --- I've borrowed it a
>> number of times and I'm sold. They're about $250 Cdn --- nice big screen
>> that I can read while driving and a really good touchscreen interface that
>> is also usable while driving. Coverage and accuracy is good --- I have
>> both
>> found and been navigated to some pretty obscure addresses and locations.
>> And
>> it is sooo much more convenient than messing around with a laptop.
>>
>> Don't know for sure about the backroads coverage but my experience with
>> the
>> TomTom is that if you can find the road on a map it's going to be in the
>> TomTom. May not apply to the backroads of BC --- but worth checking into.
>> My
>> experience with the logging/backroads of BC when I lived there is that I
>> could find them on a map and they had names/designations --- which
>> suggests
>> to me that they'd be in the TomTom. YMMV of course...........
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doug
>> Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/08, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm glad to hear that Delorme has improved the coverage in Canada.  The
>>> issue Dave was trying to address is coverage in more remote areas,
>>> specifically he was asking about the interior of BC.  Here in the States
>> I
>>> didn't have any complaints about the coverage on the Delorme.  But on a
>>> trip
>>> two years ago I ran the laptop most every day for three weeks.  I
>>> alternated
>>> between Streets & Trips and Delorme software.  And I'll stick to my
>>> opinion
>>> that the Delorme software sucks, a really bad user interface for any
>>> searching or planning.  I found it very frustrating and ended up using
>>> only
>>> Streets & Trips for the last week of the trip. But, given that, I found
>>> both
>>> very poor for use in town.  Both got lost and gave wrong directions when
>>> driving in traffic if the signal was lost for a few seconds.  If you
>>> pulled
>>> up to a stop light neither could figure out what direction you were
>> going
>>> when standing still and started providing directions that were all
>> wrong.
>>> In a severe test, getting to a friends place in Kennsington, Ca. (next
>> to
>>> Berkley) I'd still be driving in circles if I hadn't known where I was
>>> going.  Summing up so far, unless you have a second person on board to
>> act
>>> as navigator the laptop based systems fall far short.  Dedicated units
>>> meant
>>> for use in vehicles seem to be a much better solution.  BUT, those tend
>> to
>>> lack the detailed coverage in the boonies, are set up for urban
>>> navigation.
>>> BTW, to any reading this, I'm all ears for any better solutions that
>> have
>>> been found.  My experience is limited at this point.
>>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2008 11:48 AM, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know what year the DeLorme software you tried was from but the
>>>> 2008 version has greatly increased Canadian coverage.  I used the 2008
>>>> Street Atlas Plus and even the small streets (and phone numbers) in
>>>> Almonte as well as Head of St. Margaret's Bay and Halifax were shown.
>>>> Apparently, all of Canada is shown that way but those places are where
>> I
>>>> really used it.  The version I had before that only showed "most" of
>>>> Canada's main highways.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://www.dougalcock.com
>>
>
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