by eamarquardt » Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:53 pm
Hi,
I go garage saleing on Saturday mornings (when I feel up to it, and Guy has been joining me, we look for Guy stuff, no girlie girlie stuff as I leave my wife home as she slows us down in our hunt for Guy stuff, ha). I have been using Mobile PC and mapsource. I have figured out some of the idiosyncrasies in the routing algorithm and learned that it doesn't work with the latest version of Mapsource (I use Mapsource to input all of the addresses much faster than in Mobile PC).
I'm not convinced that the routing to the various waypoints is the 100% most effective path, but it is "dead nuts, balls accurate (an industry term, "Cousin Vinny") and takes you accurately from one waypoint to the next. It takes all the stress and strain out of navigating! Mindless! Even if you see an unadvertised sale (a "target of opportunity") you can detour and it will put you right back on track!
I've contacted tech support a couple of times and they've answered most of my questions and issues. I have asked them about including the ability to delete a waypoint when you get there as sometimes the GPS isn't accurate enough to realize that you "have arrived". So far they haven't responded. Maybe you could nudge them a bit!
Over all, I'm really happy with the way Garmin handled upgrading me to a unit that has a replaceable battery, the details (stores, restaurants, etc) in the program, the accuracy of the navigation, etc, etc, etc (to quote the King of Siam). The DeLorme program just didn't hack it. It wasn't accurate (it thought you were 100 yards from where you really were) and would give erroneous directions. Garmin works. Also Mobile PC (at $80 on the internet) does most everything that my wife’s NUVI 850 does at a fraction of the cost.
I'm sold on Garmin, but do nudge them to add a feature to delete a waypoint.
Cheers,
Gus
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