Re: OT: Garmin add-on maps

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Fri Aug 12 2005 - 14:35:54 EDT


"Jason Bleazard" <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:

: Oh, well, my eMap GPS is supposedly obsolete as well, so I guess I'll just
: have to make do with it. It still works fine for navigation, but of
: course the longer I keep using the same data the more road construction
: will happen, and the less accurate my maps will be. I'll probably upgrade
: some day, but I'm not worried about it for now.

  My GPS doesn't even have a map on it. :-) The last couple of trips
I took, I plotted out the turns, plugged them into my GPS as waypoints
and set up the GPS to display miles to the next waypoint, ETA, etc. It
works pretty good overall, despite the GPS not knowing about roads and
thus assuming straight line navigation. :-)

-- 
                                          -Jon-

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