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13th April 2010, 09:43 AM #46
COO - Sawdust
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Never stops being funny. GPS has a female voice and when I use it in the company of swmbo she inevitably bristles. "She's wrong!" "don't do that!"
Originally Posted by BEKKY
I have a GPS installed in my car as well as a GPS override.
It's called .
THE WIFE.!!!
Laugh....
Having been reading reviews of gps's online I'm starting to appreciate my chinese no name. It had features years ago that some expensive ones don't have now. Mind it's made a few errors....but seemingly no more than others.
I'm waiting for the garmin voice activated one to be availabe in aus with lifetime suno or whatever it is.
Going to NZ in two weeks, a garmin would be handy as they ship with nz maps as well as aus...I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?
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13th April 2010, 11:22 AM #47
Hewer of wood
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There are open source maps for NZ. Google on open street mapping or somesuch.
SUNA is available now but is pretty limited. It will get better with transmissions back to base from cars on their progress in real time.Cheers, Ern
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18th April 2010, 06:46 PM #48
FISH TILL YOU DIE
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I still prefer a common old map.
But here in Tas, lots of our maps are way out of date.
I wonder if this is because of GPS units and GOOGLE maps etc.
Our local TASMAPS, is way behind by as much as 12 years.
Do the GPS units really keep up ???
Paul.I FISH THEREFORE I AM.
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18th April 2010, 06:53 PM #49
Hewer of wood
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No they don't.
They're all based on existing maps.
HEMA do some GPS route checking on major and popular roads. Otherwise they're all based on existing maps and for the country GA 1:250k basemaps.
Bush and country maps don't change that much except for exceptional (eg. bushfire affected) and seasonal track closures.
I would only go bush with the latest paper map along with the GPS for backtracking.Cheers, Ern
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18th April 2010, 08:11 PM #50
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Flawless directions to West Perigian today.
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