[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:52:27PM -0500, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> I like the TomToms too but the nuvi is smaller and the design (fits 
> into a shirt pocket) making it more portable (that curved back on the 
> TomToms doesn't quite work so well in your pocket ;-)

I've got a nuvi350, and it's worked beautifully so far, at least
within its limitations.

Driving in the city from inwood to the JFK area was a breeze the other
day, and while out in denver a couple of weeks ago everything worked
great.

The reason I went for the nuvi over a tom-tom or a pda combo is that I
want my wife to be able to use it to walk around since she's still
somewhat new to the city. Its hard to explain the geography of the
area in words and I don't always have all the maps with me, so she can
always see where we are/where we're going. It is easily held in the
hand, and so far in my limited use it's got oddball behaviors like
taking a strangely long time to lock-on in some areas (with full view
of the sky) and not being able to have multiple waypoints or save a
route. It really sucks that more access to the features of the device
aren't available - just being able to save a route and some similar
stuff would make a world of difference.

It's ability to read off street names is fantastic (we kept missing
turns in colorado until we found the voices to name streets, exit
numbers, etc. Being told "turn in XXX feet" is very useless when you
have 4 exits/streets/ramps etc. in a row coming up).

-Peter

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