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buying navigation system. by guanako on 05-31-2006 at 10:17 PM
ok a friend asked me to help him buy a navigation system, since he travels alot, and gets like a new direction lik eeveryday, and doesnt like to get lost cose of time, so i need a good site whwere i can buy one, i dont want the kind thats gprs all the time cos those need monthly payments, so im lookin for the ones that you pay only for like a state and its all save to the device, so any one that is godd at this could advise me please 
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RE: buying navigation system. by user27089 on 05-31-2006 at 10:23 PM
They aren't worth the money, the technology still isn't great yet, they have been telling people to go strange routes through places that aren't even roads (or roads where the surface isn't even drivable). They have even been telling people to drive off cliffs.
To be honest, tell him to get a road map.
RE: buying navigation system. by t1a0s on 05-31-2006 at 10:36 PM
I agree with traxor, they aren't worth the money, and they're very expensive considering some of the stupid things they tell you to do 
Our one is forever making us take the wrong route, or making us end up at a road that isnt even there.
RE: buying navigation system. by Nathan on 05-31-2006 at 10:53 PM
Get a PDA and put software on that (or if you have one)
Nahh thats ony on rare accasions... We have one and it has NEVER taken us on a false route... and we drive to spain etc...
RE: buying navigation system. by guanako on 06-01-2006 at 03:42 AM
well i used some in the US and never really messed up, i men it will have some erros, but its not like your gonna drive off a cliff if it tells you to, i just need a website with info about this, im in the state of Minnesota.
RE: buying navigation system. by guanako on 06-01-2006 at 04:47 PM
its not me i dont need it, he does for work reasons, i dont think he cares about spending $500 USD for one, i just need advise on waht brandk or kind to get.
RE: buying navigation system. by Nathan on 06-01-2006 at 04:53 PM
Panasonic are very good... Never had a problem with ours and ouurs is quite old now... and they send us updated maps every 6 months...
My one
I must say dont go for pioneer they are crap
My nan has one and she is having nothing but problems with it
RE: buying navigation system. by Adeptus on 06-01-2006 at 04:54 PM
http://www.tomtom.com
Check it out. This is not an endorsement -- just something I've been hearing a lot of radio ads for. I don't use such things myself.
RE: buying navigation system. by Nathan on 06-01-2006 at 04:58 PM
I know three people who have this. they say for using it for short distances its great but taking it a abroad you have to pay for extra maps etc... and is not reccomend for long distances!
RE: buying navigation system. by Reaper on 06-01-2006 at 05:33 PM
TomTom 3 is meant to be one of the best.
RE: RE: buying navigation system. by CookieRevised on 06-01-2006 at 06:04 PM
quote:I used those (in europe) and they suck big time compared to other brands.
Originally posted by Adeptus
http://www.tomtom.com
Check it out. This is not an endorsement -- just something I've been hearing a lot of radio ads for. I don't use such things myself.
Sure they are advertised a lot, but compare them to others (as in use them side by side with others) and you'll notice the difference immediatly.
TomTom is very much advertised and well known, but are not that good. TomTom is more like the cheap version of the actual proper thing so to speak.... You get what you pay for is certainly on its place here (although, in that aspect, I find TomTom devices overpriced). IMHO, the biggest disadvantage of the common TomTom Go devices are the bulkyness of them and the not so userfriendly (or maybe too userfriendly) menus.
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But now we're talking about GPS navigation systems. There are a lot of different navigation systems.
It isn't clear in the first post which "navigation system" is meant: a device with build in GPS? An electronical map (thus without GPS) or what?
Reason I say this is because of Traxor's first reply. Traxor said the technology isn't that great yet. If he means GPS navigation systems then he's dead wrong though. GPS navigation exists for a looooooooong time now. You wouldn't believe in what stuff GPS is used today. And even what things wouldn't be possible without the dead accurate and extremely reliable GPS navigation systems. eg: whole industries would fall appart, heck, whole economical systems would fall appart. If there wasn't GPS, or even if it was so unreliable as you claim, not much boats would travel around the world, tanker collisions would occur every day, habors wouldn't exist, airplanes would still get "missing" all the time. Hell, even people who go on scientific exploration missions would be missing all the time, etc... etc... etc...
(well maybe one positive thing would happen: we wouldn't had long range missiles standing all around the world and war would still be a bit 'man to man' and more 'personal' (if that can be considered "good" that is))
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If there is one certainty than it is the position of a GPS navigation device.
The only thing that might be "inaccurate" are the maps used on car-navigation systems and such. But that doesn't have anything todo with GPS.
If some drunk dude entered the wrong streetname in the database or some dude who showed up late on work didn't bother to check the coordinates they measured for the streets, or he saw the housenumber "3" double and made it "33", then of course the map you'll see on the screen would be 'wrong'.
But living in a country with extremely many roads criss-crossed all over the place, constant roadworks, constant new streets, changing streets, etc, I can say that if you buy a good GPS car-navigation you wouldn't have any problems at all. I use GPS a lot (for work) and only one time I didn't ended up where I wanted to be and that was the very first time I used the GPS: I simply wasn't used to it and how it showed directions.
In this aspect, even TomTom devices are good, but other brands quite often have better advantages: more userfriendly, more logical, better maps (on screen that is... not talking about accuracy as both are mostly equal: they come from the same source anyways, although they brand it differently), better placed buttons, etc.
quote:I agree, I used a panasonic once, nothing negative to say about it. Good clear big display (very important), etc...
Originally posted by Nathan
Panasonic are very good... Never had a problem with ours and ouurs is quite old now... and they send us updated maps every 6 months...
My one
Though, a fell flat on my belly when the dude, who showed me this panasonic, stated the price