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    Long Hauler D2Reid's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by CWSWine View Post
    I read a bunch of the reviews. I do agree with some of them,.
    Thanks for taking the time to follow up on my questions. All gps programs will take you down the wrong road from time to time. Now I just have to justify to myself spending a couple of bucks.
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    We have been to Bar Harbor. and you are right! Why does GPS which should see ALL of the alternatives take you around your elbow to scratch your back side? No matter what town you are in it seems that SOMEONE has paid what ever machine company your gps was made by to take everyone down a certain route to appease the local businesses.
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    Goggle Map directions work great on phone; never led me down dirt road or through parking lot like Garmin. You have to use good judgement with any electronic directions, Garmin is good about showing you exit lanes on interstates and your speed; I use both Goggle maps on my phone and Garmin but always follow Goggle map directions as Garmin has been wrong to many times. Garmin does work in cases where there are no cell towers nearby for phone to work but this is usually only in rural areas.

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    I learned the hard way a couple of years ago. I was travelling on an interstate through Pennsylvania when my GPS sent my off the interstate through a town and back on the interstate again. We were close to our destination so at first I didn't question the directions. Not much fun with a 36' 5th wheel in tow. Now I preplan every trip on my computer and plot waypoints along the way so I don't get directed off the highway. I also plot all fuel stops and know all exit numbers in advance.

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    Like Buckskin, I use Google maps a lot. It did however put me on a dirt "turn row" which did have a chunk of old asphalt occasionally. Apparently some time in the past it was a state or local road. We crawled down it a mile or so then came out on a real road and continued merrily on our way. I guess the first time we get really burned we get a different app.
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    I had a Garmin send me down a small paved road which turned to dirt. After 1/4 mile or so it directed me to turn right off a 200 ft cliff. Fortunately I wasn't towing at the time.

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    We have been using a Garmin 760 since we got the Reflection over 4 years ago. It has free updates/upgrades and (in my opinion) the navigation ability gets worse with every update. Even travelling areas that it has navigated us through before, it now comes up with routes that are just stupid.

    We have been using the GoodSam's Trip Planner app for trip planning (which is about to be discontinued). When Garmin and GoodSam's disagreed . . . we always followed GoodSams. I think we entered rig height/length/etc into GoodSams . . . but, I am not sure about this. I suppose we will now try Google Maps for trip planning . . .

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    Go Off Road!

    Not RV specific but a GPS story I think you'll enjoy (at my expense)!

    Fran and I are on the Goldwing traveling north on I-75 (we'd left Key West that morning) headed to Sanibel Island when we ran into the mother of all Florida rainstorms. Buckets of water coming from the sky. It was all I could do to keep us in one piece while trusting my Garmin Zumo to get us to Sanibel. I had the display zoomed in so I wouldn't miss a turn. I could have stopped but figured, "It's not that far--we can make it!"

    After what seemed like an eternity the rain finally let up as we approached Sanibel only to be cheerfully told at the end of the road in St. James City (we were on Pine Island!) to "Go off Road".

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    I sat there at that dead end looking across the water at Sanibel completely dumbfounded. It was a long ride back around to the hotel where I think I literally peeled myself off the bike.

    Gotta love GPS'.
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    Howard,
    Maybe GPS thought you were on one of these. Or maybe you should've been
    https://www.gibbssports.com/biski

    Cheers,
    Kevin
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    How about a JetWing?

    Quote Originally Posted by kevinpo View Post
    Howard,
    Maybe GPS thought you were on one of these. Or maybe you should've been
    https://www.gibbssports.com/biski

    Cheers,
    Kevin
    I actually wanted one of these:

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    (So I don't hijack this thread any further...the above was Photoshop'd together from a Jet Ski and a Gold Wing. It was created to tease the leader of my motorcycle club here in Fort Walton Beach that got himself into a little watery mess on a ride through the Black River area north of I-10. But that's a story for another day...)
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