gps recommendations?

[David Rysdam]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 23:38:28 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> Actually, the term you *really* want (for the feature you want)
> is "route-planning", or possibly "interactive route-planning"
> (as opposed to "route-finding"). And, now that I mention that,
> I seem to remember a discussion on *another* mailing list that we
> were both on, a few years ago, about how someone was `looking for
> a GPS unit that supports route-planning' and there was a bout of
> `route-planning vs. route-finding' confusion/discourse that ensued....
> 
> Someone wrote a chapter for the FoxtrotGPS manual specifically about this,
> including some perhaps non-obvious recommendations on the most effective
> way to plan a route so as to help your satnav unit navigate in adherence
> to your `route backbone' without confusing it:
> 
>         http://www.foxtrotgps.org/doc/foxtrotgps.html#Route-Planning

Well, this is helpful, unhelpful and then helpfully unhelpful.

Helpful: Those are indeed some good terms to use to find other people
who want the same thing.

Unhelpful: But the proposed solutions are still planning routes by
constraining vertices, not edges.

Helpfully unhelpful: But maybe what this proves is that no GPS has ever
heard "it's the journey, not the destination".