GPS, What a good one for RV'ing?

exioum wrote:
Last year in Pa. I was on a back road that ran into a covered bridge. Good thing there was very little traffic, i had to back up about 200 yards to turn around...
Anyway, if your using one that gives lots of road details, i'ed like to hear about it...
Yes i do use a truckers map now to get an idea of the area i'm working in.

I don't think anything will give you that. In my early trucking days, I delivered a lot of plants and flowers out of Florida. Hauling posies to nurseries in the Northeast, can get one on lots of back, skinny, curvey, narrow roads and over lots of very light rated bridges with a tractor trailer. Places I should not have been! Had I been caught each time, I'd probably still be in jail. And yes, they use to actually put truckers in jail for stuff like that.

Now, actually I think you are looking for the wrong thing. You want to be looking at the POI (points of interest) that can be added to a GPS like Garmin, and especially Streets and Trips. S&T is so much more than just a trip planner, when you add its GPS receiver, and the megafile of all pushpins/map overlays at http://www.discoveryowners.com/cginfo.htm, http://www.lowclearances.com/, and other sources. And if you can travel while you computer has access to the internet, you also have Bing maps as part of your S&T. With that at your fingertips, better yet your co-pilot's fingertips, you can zoom right in on a intersection. You may not be able to see it real time, but provided the bridge did not fall in, your good to go!!

You can also do this with Delorme. And you can add the POIs and http://www.lowclearances.com/ to Garmin, TomTom, Street Pilot, GoogleEarth, and Navman.

Take a look over at Lap Top GPS World to get a idea of what is possible. I think you will come close to finding why you want. But nothing but road signs will tell you that you should not go down that 2 ton posted road or over that 6 ton bridge.