gps recommendations?

[Jerry Feldman]

One feature that I was not able to get working on the Android version of 
Google Maps is route manipulation by moving the lines like you can on 
the web version. The advantages of a commercial GPS system, like TomTom 
is the screen size. Also, your maps are all preloaded. In a smartphone, 
your maps are loaded via your data connection, but there is a way to 
preload your maps before going into an area where you may not have wifi. 
It depends on your cache size. Also look at mapdroyd. I once compared 
Google Maps nav with Lexus nav, and I preferred the Google Maps route.

On 05/18/2013 07:44 PM, Mac wrote:
>
> My tomtom was stolen a year ago. About that time I upgraded my Android 
> phone. I tried google maps and navigator and found it more than 
> adequate. Haven't bothered with anything else since.
>
> On May 18, 2013 2:14 PM, "David Rysdam" <david at rysdam.org 
> <mailto:david at rysdam.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:23 -0400, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org
>     <mailto:gaf at blu.org>> wrote:
>     > On 05/18/2013 01:46 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
>     > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:49:21 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen
>     <rozzin at geekspace.com <mailto:rozzin at geekspace.com>> wrote:
>     > >> David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org <mailto:david at rysdam.org>> writes:
>     > >>> Helpfully unhelpful: But maybe what this proves is that no
>     GPS has ever
>     > >>> heard "it's the journey, not the destination".
>     > >> I think the point of Tilmann's notes in the FoxtrotGPS manual
>     is that
>     > >> `the vertices *are* the edges', e.g.:
>     > >>
>     > >>      * Do not set your waypoints on crossings. Instead, set
>     them on the
>     > >>        road between crossings.
>     > > I saw that. It's possible that it might function the way you
>     suspect in
>     > > some cases. However, having had some inexplicable (and some
>     > > explicable-by-positing-the-GPS-is-dumb) experiences, I suspect
>     what
>     > > would frequently happen is a route that did NOT include that edge,
>     > > except for the one point I happened to stick on there. I.e.
>     > >
>     > > 1) a completely unexpected route
>     > > 2) get on an entrance ramp to My Chosen Highway
>     > > 3) drive past the point
>     > > 4) take the next exit
>     > > 5) continue on with GPS's idea of what I want
>     > >
>     > > This is "easily" solvable by putting more points on My Chosen
>     > > Highway...for someone with infinite patience in trying to
>     trick software
>     > > into doing the right thing. From the volume of responses I've
>     gotten
>     > > telling me about wayPOINTS, routePOINTS, and
>     POINTS-of-interest, I must
>     > > be the only one who wants a feature that lets me input *lines*.
>     > >
>     > You can to that with Google Maps. I'm not sure exactly what you
>     want to
>     > do, but it is much more flexible than the standard GPS.
>
>     Yeah, at one point I was going to say "What I want is Google Maps, but
>     in portable form". That's not exactly true, but closer than what I
>     have
>     now. Maybe I need to get an smartphone. But it seems like if this
>     functionality can exist in a phone, it can exist in a GPS. Or
>     maybe the
>     crucial factor is the internet access, in which case a smartphone
>     wouldn't help me either (since I wouldn't always be in a coverage
>     area).
>


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