Garmin GPS - nroute...How do you like it???

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nroute...How do you like it???

mab992@post.com

2006-01-18, 5:48 pm

I know that the current version has been upgraded several times,
but I was just wondering if anyone has been using it and if you
like it?

Thanks

MB

John Masterson

2006-01-20, 5:48 pm

I have been using it almost from the time it came out for traveling around
the highways of Texas, out to Las Vegas and Up to Denver. Works well,
especially with my GPS 18 which is a hockey puck on the hood of my car.
Since I have already owned Mapsource, there was no cost to start using
NRoute.

The voice prompts are predictable, the maps are pretty accurate, the display
on the screen is useful to me.

My 2 cents.

JFMasterson
<mab992@post.com> wrote in message
news:1137602846.215245.234300@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I know that the current version has been upgraded several times,
> but I was just wondering if anyone has been using it and if you
> like it?
>
> Thanks
>
> MB
>

mab992@post.com

2006-01-21, 11:48 pm

Well....how does it compare to some of the more
expensive Garmin/Magellan, Tom Tom models?

Reason I ask is becuase it should compare favorably
since you're using your GPS's receiving capability and
the superior processing/mapping power of a laptop rather
than a compact "on dash" unit. While you may not have
"touch screen" capability I would think that the mapping/routing
capability would definately compare.

MB

John Masterson

2006-01-22, 5:48 pm

Sorry, I have no experience with those expensive, small screened devices.

Like you allude to, I want to see my wide screen laptop screen, even though
it is sitting on the seat next to me, rather than on the dash or ash tray.
My everyday GPS is still a GPS V which is small and slow, but it keeps the
track logs which I want to maintain all the time. On most trips around town,
I do not bring the laptop, but when on a trip, the laptop and nRoute come to
the front.

By the way, I also use Street Atlas 2006. I have found their roads
appearance on the screen better, but just this weekend Garmin came out with
a beta of mapsource which displays the different classes of roads better. As
soon as they have that change moved into the nRoute, I may stop using the
Street Atlas. It's entertaining to me to see the places where the maps are
wrong as I go down the road, and I feel that glancing at the big screen is
safer than a smaller one.

Keep on moving,

John

<mab992@post.com> wrote in message
news:1137898171.779061.271110@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Well....how does it compare to some of the more
> expensive Garmin/Magellan, Tom Tom models?
>
> Reason I ask is becuase it should compare favorably
> since you're using your GPS's receiving capability and
> the superior processing/mapping power of a laptop rather
> than a compact "on dash" unit. While you may not have
> "touch screen" capability I would think that the mapping/routing
> capability would definately compare.
>
> MB
>

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