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Thread: GPS for cars.
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27th June 2007, 03:07 PM #1
GPS for cars.
Not having much experience with these little devices can I get some input to help answer a colleages question.
What are the main benefits from spending more money on them?
Better working range?
More maps?
Ease of use etc?
I might get myself one sometime but have not managed to get myself lost for a while despite being told to............................
Cheers Dears
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27th June 2007, 03:51 PM #2
G'day Mr. Laird.
They are the duck's guts.
I do a lot of driving for site inspections all over the country for our flooring installations.
It is a real pain to fly into a city, hire a car and try to navigate by street directory.
Last month I got a Tomtom One XL from TANDY. bloody great bit of kit. should have had one years ago. No more street directories. fly in, hire car, mount to windscreen. turn on, select destination and WALLAH... follow the arrows and the voice guidance. I drove from Grafton to Beachmere ( north of Brisbane) yesterday. never been there before. Tomtom lead me right to the front door of the site. And when I was ready to leave, I hit the HOME button and it brought me back with no dramas. It has the latest aussie maps and if you go to the auspoi website you can download for free the speed camera locations, as well as the locations of Bunnies, McDonalds, wendys, School zones. Can also download different voices also for free. I have Darth Vader voice at the moment. Best $599 I have ever spent.
The Missus bought a new Subaru Liberty and it has a GPS SATNAV builtin to the dash. She loves it.Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor
Grafton
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27th June 2007, 04:29 PM #3
I have to echo Mr Glock's comments.
Great bits of gear.
I have a Navman and am really happy with it.
They pretty much all get you where you want to go but some of the newer (more expensive ) ones have some great features like Bluetooth handsfree operation of your phone through the touch screen on the sat nav. Pre set speed and red light camera warnings are handy too. Not that I ever speed of courseThose were the droids I was looking for.
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27th June 2007, 05:04 PM #4
I have one built into my Pocket Computer/Phone which operates via Bluetooth
When you key in someones address it even tells you when to pull up outside the address.
Haven't opened a street directory in 18 months.
Trouble is there is the latest version of the map available and they want $230.00 for the down load.
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27th June 2007, 06:24 PM #5
If you get one fitted to ya car get it BOLTED down. Top thing for stealing. Mate of mine went to Adelaide got one fitted for a tour over Vic And NSW. 4 hours later his car had been routed through and the GPS went looking for itself
I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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27th June 2007, 08:32 PM #6
We recently went to brisbane and loaned Irenes brothers Garmin GPS. It took us to the Showgrounds a lot easier than she could read a melways, no arguments on which way to turn, went straight to dick smiths and got one for ourselves.
Nothing worse than trying to go somewhere and it is dark and stopping all the time to try and figure where you are.
Irene says she is the only other woman allowed into my life that she will put up with.
Takes a little bit getting used to what it is trying to tell you but if you stuff up it quickly recalculates and gets you back on track.Jim Carroll
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27th June 2007, 11:01 PM #7SENIOR MEMBER
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Well - we bought ours last century... a Garmin e(something)... mounts on the dashboard, has a zoomable map of aus with lines for roads (some of the roads have moved LOL).. and the display moves as you travel. Dunt talk to you: no street directories: nothing fancy: but yur never lost...
From memory - paid ca$700 for it back then...
Can see the usefullness of updating to (say) a tomtom if we were needing to find specific addresses in strange cities - but we don't need that sort of thing... Just type in F..I..T..Z... and it comes up with fitzroy crossing... accept it and follow the directional arrow, keep to the road lines... and 8 days later - presto - yu've arrived....
S'thing we often do - drive randomly for 2 or 3 days, exploring anywhere the breeze takes us... then turn on the garmin and find out where we ended up (and which way to go to get back)
Another use for GPS - for those who don't know - is GEOCACHING...
hide a little placca box full of trinkets and loot and a notebook and pencil. post the gps coordinates on a geocache site with a little clue as to it's exact location ( 10 strides east of the 3rd cow pat past the gate...) - others go and find it and log back to the geocache site... Of course others hide loot as well... it's well established in Aus... I've got a few caches here and there... just google geocache australia...
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jedo
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28th June 2007, 12:28 AM #8
Have had a navman for over 12 months top bit of gear the newest are even better , they take pictures and remember the position wher the picture was taken and will direct you to that location as well as local petrol dining accomodation etc in some cities . You can also get the road angle incorperated in some GPS'S that warn you when approaching fixed radar cameras school zones and can be adjusted to by-pass toll roads .
However the best feature for me is the accurate speedo , that is they tell you of you cars correct speed, where most speedos are inaccurate, plus they operate in any car and use a cigar lighter socket as power, great if you fly to diffrent cities.Ashore
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28th June 2007, 12:02 PM #9
G'day Benny, what is your problem????
I thought there was always somebody willing to tell you where to go.
I had a play with one in a Lexus a couple of months ago, worked well until I needed to go to a place on a very long main road through Cairns & I either didn't have the right street number or it didn't exist in the map.
I had to fight with it for a while to get it to accept a destination, I ended up picking an address on a cross street near where I had to go so that required some local knowledge.
Just out of interest, for anybody who has one, try & see if you can select Mulgrave Rd. in Cairns as a destination.Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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28th June 2007, 12:15 PM #10
A friend of mine is going to New Zealand in September and has arranged for her hire car to have one installed ($7.00 per day) and it gives you a running commentary through the car radio as you drive from place to place, detailing history and places of interest around the area.
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
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28th June 2007, 12:51 PM #11
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28th June 2007, 01:04 PM #12
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28th June 2007, 06:14 PM #13
Cliff It will only go up to 154.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor
Grafton
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28th June 2007, 07:51 PM #14
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28th June 2007, 11:38 PM #15
It is Mulgrave Road, not Mulgrave Street. Mulgrave Road goes up to at least 535 & then it becomes the Bruce Highway but the numbers continue on.
Aumuller Street runs from Tingira Street to Hoare Street & it crosses Mulgrave Road.Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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