Does anyone have any experience with the Garmin GPS units?
Specifically the Drivesmart 55 and for US/Canadian
travel?
In past I have not been so interested in GPS because I
would rather use maps. However, in recent years, my
eyesight has gotten where it would be nice to have
something tell me where to turn, but only if I had some
input in setting the route. :)
Does anyone have any experience with the Garmin GPS units?
Specifically the Drivesmart 55 and for US/Canadian
travel?
I have a Drive 50. I've never used it for what you describe,
but remember options for selecting alternate routes.
Does anyone have any experience with the Garmin GPS units?
Specifically the Drivesmart 55 and for US/Canadian
travel?
I have a Drive 50. I've never used it for what you describe,
but remember options for selecting alternate routes.
Thanks for the feedback. I assume you are happy with your Garmin product?
I have a Drive 50. I've never used it for what you
describe, but remember options for selecting alternate
routes.
Thanks for the feedback. I assume you are happy with your
Garmin product?
Quoting Dumas Walker to All <=-
Does anyone have any experience with the Garmin GPS units?
Specifically the Drivesmart 55 and for US/Canadian travel?
I am looking for a unit that will allow me to customize my route, i.e.
if it picks the fastest or shortest and I decide I want to take a side road that I have heard is more scenic.
In past I have not been so interested in GPS because I would rather
use maps. However, in recent years, my eyesight has gotten where it
would be nice to have something tell me where to turn, but only if I
had some input in setting the route. :)
turned off for several days. Maybe your Drive55 model
overcomes that. Anyway.. now that I know that batt power can
be conserved by turning it off, the Drive50 can make a decent
portable unit for hiking.
I presume that the "50" in Drive50 means a 5" screen, and the
Drive55 has a 5.5" screen?
Anyway.. explore the menus. There is some modest prompting on
how to program an alternate route.
garmins are pretty outdated compared to google maps.
i still use one but i have no idea why. when i'm really traveling nothing bea
google maps.
I still have maps in my vehicle as well. There have been one or two
times where the GPS has tried to send me 'Off road' in Pittsburgh at
a mall. Other than that, these units are great. They may not be
the newest thing on the market, but I can and have recently
downloaded updates for the US maps. Unbelievably, I have the latest
maps on my Nuvi (granted I did have to buy a 4GB SD card for it).
I also owned a Tomtom GPS, but I found the Garmin better for me
personally.
So my experience using Google Maps on my cell phone is very different than yours. :) My successful use cases for Google Maps involves using them as
a map, and maybe even writing my own directions to certain places, on the laptop before taking off for the day. I use it a lot for that and that usually works well (although I still have to be careful of the roads that
no longer exist issue).
MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
So my experience using Google Maps on my cell phone is very different than yours. :) My successful use cases for Google Maps involves using them as
a map, and maybe even writing my own directions to certain places, on the laptop before taking off for the day. I use it a lot for that and that usually works well (although I still have to be careful of the roads that
no longer exist issue).
You can probably just buy a 30 dollar cellphone and dont activate
it and just use it as a gps with google maps.
Dumas Walker wrote to ALL <=-
Does anyone have any experience with the Garmin GPS units?
Specifically the Drivesmart 55 and for US/Canadian travel?
Both of my Garmin GPS units will let me set a route and then pick
an alternate. The directions step you through doing this. The
reason I have 2 is that I have one for my vehicle and one for my
wifes vehicle.
I still have maps in my vehicle as well. There have been one or two
times where the GPS has tried to send me 'Off road' in Pittsburgh at
a mall. Other than that, these units are great. They may not be
the newest thing on the market, but I can and have recently
downloaded updates for the US maps. Unbelievably, I have the latest
maps on my Nuvi (granted I did have to buy a 4GB SD card for it).
I also owned a Tomtom GPS, but I found the Garmin better for me
personally.
i think you have a defective cellphone. i have used google maps a LOT. i've iven all over wisconsin and surrounding states(because of my employer where i s a tech going to new places every day) and to the east coast every year.
I haven't really seen any crazy stuff.
Thanks for the input! I have since found some YT videos
where people let the Garmin pick a route and then they
"shape" it to add the side roads they would rather take.
Phones plural. The original experience was on an Android. I have also
used two different iphones over the years in question. Two were on the
same carrier, and one a different carrier, so that is also not the problem.
Maybe you stay on the highway routes more than I do. <shrugs> It does
seem to get the Interstate parts right.
If you don't activate it, it won't work unless on Wifi. Not much Wifi
out on the open highway. Duh.
Dumas Walker wrote to COUGAR428 <=-
Thanks for the input! I have since found some YT videos where people
let the Garmin pick a route and then they "shape" it to add the side
roads they would rather take.
Back around 2014-2015, there were a couple of GPS apps for your phone
that would pick side roads and points of interest between point A and
point B. I used it to discover ghost towns, birthplaces of celebrities, oldest buildings in their respective counties, and so on. Lots of fun
when you're not on a tight schedule.
I remember fussing in one of the echos about that last one only to be
that Google Maps had turned off their "don't route through bad areas" because people complained it was not "politically correct" to do so.
I remember fussing in one of the echos about that last one only to be that Google Maps had turned off their "don't route through bad areas" because people complained it was not "politically correct" to do so.
When did it become "politically incorrect" to steer clear of danger? '-)
Re: Garmin GPS Units?
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Mar 19 2023 09:18:00
I remember fussing in one of the echos about that last one only to be that Google Maps had turned off their "don't route through bad areas" because people complained it was not "politically correct" to do so.
When did it become "politically incorrect" to steer clear of danger? '-)
Regards,
HusTler
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