Garmin GPS - Re: Garmin Nuvi 670 one-month test run (questions & suggestions)

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Re: Garmin Nuvi 670 one-month test run (questions & suggestions) - Question for the guru's

alhedges@gmail.com

2007-08-15, 10:33 pm

On Aug 15, 6:00 pm, "Bruce." <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Oliver Costich" <ocost...@NOSPAMcomcast.net> wrote in message
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> It does work if you have a small number of favorites. In my case, we're
> planning a trip down Route 66. The problem is that 66 parallels the new
> replacement interstate which we're going to trying to stay off of. The Nuvi
> refuses to stay on 66, detouring over to the new interstate at nearly every
> ramp. I would need new favorite every few miles, which would become totally
> unmanageable. In the 2500 mile trip it would take many hundreds of
> favorites to keep it on 66. I'd have to pull over every 10 miles to select
> a new favorite and via.
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> This is one of those cases where it is a no-brainer to do with MapSource but
> virtually impossible with a Nuvi. The best I can hope from the Nuvi is to
> help us find gas, food, and shelter along the way, and get us home if we get
> lost on the poorly marked 66.
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> Bruce.

Does "avoid highways" not fix this problem? Or does the nuvi treat
Rt. 66 as a highway?

dold@99.usenet.us.com

2007-08-16, 10:33 pm

In sci.geo.satellite-nav Pegleg <Pegleg@usnavyret.mil> wrote:
> Why would want GPS on a train where you have absolutely no control over
> your route/speed/stops/etc?

In part for thew same reason I carry one on an airplane. It passes the
time, looking out the window and knowing where I am, what I'm looking at.

Why would I want a GPS in the middle of Mongolia, where someone else is
driving, and he navigates by watching the contour of the mountain ranges?

--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

Elmo P. Shagnasty

2007-08-17, 7:33 am

In article <fa37un$nr$1@blue.rahul.net>, dold@99.usenet.us.com wrote:

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> 'cause that's what you have?
> Do you have more than one GPS? How many different varieties do you have?

Several.

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> I expect them to all do some of the same things.

About the only thing they all will do is give you your coordinates.
Beyond that, each one does different things with those coordinates.

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> _buying_ the wrong one for a single application doesn't make sense, but
> using the one you have for the task at hand is a different thing. I have
> used a screwdriver to press a small nail into place from time to time.

But you wouldn't pound in large nails at the rate of one per second,
just because that's all you happened to have at hand.

A GPS isn't a GPS isn't a GPS. They all know your coordinates, but what
they do with that information is different for all of them. A
car-centric unit is useless for non-car-centric things, by and large.
Could you maybe use it for non-car-centric things if you had to? For
some things. For all things? No.

Pegleg

2007-08-19, 12:33 pm

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:21:31 +0100, Phil<pj@thecork.trig222.f9.co.uk>
wrote:

>I agree with the postings about the nuvi. It is not a GPS, it is a SatNav.

Phil, just how do you define the differences?

Edwin Pawlowski

2007-08-19, 10:35 pm

"Pegleg" <Pegleg@usnavyret.mil> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:21:31 +0100, Phil<pj@thecork.trig222.f9.co.uk>
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> Phil, just how do you define the differences?

I'm not Phil, but IMO, there is a difference.

GPS is to tell where you are with the use of satellites for the positioning.
In its purest form, that is all it would tell you.

SatNav is a tool that uses those same satellites for navigation. In the
case of a Nuvi, it is designed to be used on the road with specialized
software. It will calculate a route for you using those roads on the
mapping software and has limited use for other situations for which it is
not designed.

Just_a_fan@home.net

2007-12-31, 12:33 pm

There are some areas where there is a specific truck route separate from
the route for cars. Usually this is because of a grade problem or a
low-speed merge is allocated for trucks only. These are usually short
detours or a mile or less around areas which are fine for cars but would
give larger vehicles a problem.

Mike

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:10:59 -0000, in sci.geo.satellite-nav "grupoZero"
<ruiol@portugalmail.com> wrote:

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>What are the diference between car, truck and Bus?
>I can't keep the main road between two cities ( if I don't want to go on
>speedways) and I travel allways with "fastest way" on, instead of "short
>way"
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