GPS versus Maps

Gas Man · 08-16-2008, 10:08 AM

I think Google is the best way if you want to customize your route as far as online maps with turn by turn directions.

GPS is a different animal all together. I got my wife a Garmin for x-mas and its great. But don't try to outsmart it. There is an option to do anything. You can avoid toll roads, highways, dirt roads, ect...

For example, going to my father in laws earlier this year. I know how to get there... and it requires dirt roads..PERIOD... but I didn't know the garmin had selected to avoid them. So it took us 10 miles out of the way so that we had 1 mile of dirt instead of 3 miles. But when you're following those damn things... you just have a habbit of going on auto pilot... follow the purple line! It was night and we blew right past the damn dirt road we usually take. OH WELL.

08-16-2008, 10:08 AM	#3
Gas Man Trip's Assistant Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Imported from Detroit Moto: 2009 HD Street Classic Posts: 12,149	I think Google is the best way if you want to customize your route as far as online maps with turn by turn directions. GPS is a different animal all together. I got my wife a Garmin for x-mas and its great. But don't try to outsmart it. There is an option to do anything. You can avoid toll roads, highways, dirt roads, ect... For example, going to my father in laws earlier this year. I know how to get there... and it requires dirt roads..PERIOD... but I didn't know the garmin had selected to avoid them. So it took us 10 miles out of the way so that we had 1 mile of dirt instead of 3 miles. But when you're following those damn things... you just have a habbit of going on auto pilot... follow the purple line! It was night and we blew right past the damn dirt road we usually take. OH WELL. __________________ -Chris "Why pay somebody else to fuck up your bike?" Run Amsoil Product