Garmin GPS - Nuvi 680 and its pleasure <bg>

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Nuvi 680 and its pleasure <bg>

Joel

2007-10-22, 3:33 pm

After traveling to the same route 4 times in little over a year, I start
to smell my new Nuvi 680 a little better. Or I am seeing Garmin is moving
backward faster than I would hope.

- DETAIL displaying which seems like Nuvi 680 doesn't care what owners want
to see, but whatever it feels like <bg>. Last week was the 4th times I
traveled to the same route acrossed around 3 states

- On I-29 South (I believe border of Nebraska and Iowa) I saw a big
building, and it could be one heck of a water treatment plan or
something. Because I believe the Missouri river is probably within 1-2
miles behind it, but in front is a pretty big lake (I didn't see this big
before so I am guessing it's little flooded dur to so many heavy rains in
Missouri I heard on the news), but big enough for Nuvi 680 to display
some BLUE color

Then I noticed a small BLUE line go across the I-29, so I looked to other
size and saw a small pond on other side of the I-29. They connected by a
very small crack for the water to move from one side to other (and
probably a pipe under the I-29 as there is no bridge), and it seems small
enough that with a good walking cane, I am at 71 year young may be able
to jump over it.

- About over 2 hrs later on US-36 I saw at least 2 rivers with good size
bridges, and one of them is the Missouri River full of water. And the
sad thing that Nuvi 680 doesn't even see the river, so no BLUE symbol
for water <bg>

- And I ran across several cemeteries, and one displays GREEN on screen
while others display NONE.

- ACCURATE

- Since my youngest grand-daughter studies at Truman University
(Kirksville), and I take US-63 to get there. When I left Kirksville to
Iowa, I took US-63 and Nuvi 680 gave the wrong information here.

a. The hi-lite gave a straight-line (pass the interstate)

b. The voice said to turn LEFT

I didn't know when to make a left turn so I followed the Hi-Lite to find
out that I should make a left-turn right at the intersection. Another
problem that Nuvi says US-63 but the street sign says "Baltimore". Or, if
Nuvi 680 adds the {63} to it then I should have known "Baltimore" is also
"US 63)

- Hours later when entering I-235, Nuvi 680 said to "Keep Left" (which
brought back my memory when I traveled to this same sport around 20-22 years
ago) so I listened to my Nuvi 680. Then I saw the sign said "West I-235
NEXT RIGHT), but it was too late for me to turn right (cuz there were cars
on my right), so I have to drive straight then got to I-235 later.

It turned out that Iowa had huge I-235 construction in the past few years,
and they made few small changes that City Navigator forgot to update theirs.

And while driving, I kept wondering why the City Navigator itself on
computer displays much more detail, and POI symbol, and even the old
StreetPilot III can display more detail and POI symbols on screen, but the
newer and greater Nuvi 680 can't. First, I thought Nuvi 680 uses the same
City Navigator 2008 installed on computer, the LCD can display any graphic
*but* why it can't display more detail information (not even care to say
wrong information <bg> )??????

sierra

2007-10-22, 3:33 pm

"Hutber's law states that "improvement means deterioration". It is
founded on the cynical observation that a stated improvement actually
hides a deterioration.

The term has seen wide application in business, engineering, and risk
analysis. It was first articulated in the 1970s by Patrick Hutber, an
economist and journalist working for The Sunday Telegraph in London."

Al Gillis

2007-10-28, 10:33 pm

"sierra" <cfhughes@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1193081279.737523.143970@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> "Hutber's law states that "improvement means deterioration". It is
> founded on the cynical observation that a stated improvement actually
> hides a deterioration.
>
> The term has seen wide application in business, engineering, and risk
> analysis. It was first articulated in the 1970s by Patrick Hutber, an
> economist and journalist working for The Sunday Telegraph in London."
>
>
>

This information brought to you straight from Wikipedia!

Richard

2008-01-22, 12:33 pm

What I love is my 650 instructing me to turn right in 40 feet as I am
already passing the intersection. My old OEM GPS in my Chrysler min-van is
always spot on and I expected as much from this costly toy, but nooooo.

Garmin only updates new map corrections once a year in the Fall. Several of
the roads in my area are relatively new and are not on this GPS which I
have installed the latest updates. It is not like that TV commercial where
the new bridge is opened and another GPS unit already navigates a car across
the bridge seconds later.

Richard>

Robert Boucher

2008-01-22, 12:33 pm

In article < 13pc9qblb5dfne1@corp
.supernews.com>,
"Richard" <rfeirste@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> What I love is my 650 instructing me to turn right in 40 feet as I am
> already passing the intersection. My old OEM GPS in my Chrysler min-van is
> always spot on and I expected as much from this costly toy, but nooooo.
>
> Garmin only updates new map corrections once a year in the Fall. Several of
> the roads in my area are relatively new and are not on this GPS which I
> have installed the latest updates. It is not like that TV commercial where
> the new bridge is opened and another GPS unit already navigates a car across
> the bridge seconds later.

Isn't that a TomTom commercial <g>
>
> Richard>

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