Using Cell Phone As Your GPS
Do a lot of you use your cell phone as a GPS? I know that using the GPS on your phone runs your battery down faster so generally you need to have it plugged into power at all times. Just wondering if ...
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Lantley wrote:drsteve wrote:K Charles wrote:
If I use my phone for a GPS the screen will turn off and the Google lady will still tell me when to turn.
Beware the Google Lady. She has led us into some rather odd places, especially if she thinks there's a tenth of a mile to be saved.
That is my problem with Google, sometimes in an effort to find a shorter route, I get led down a questionable road.
TYpically not a big deal until you're towing a 40', 5'er
Last summer DW and I were camping in a state park on Lake Michigan, and we decided to go explore the adjacent National Forest. We went looking for a NPS campground, and the Google Lady had us leave the paved road and go down a dirt road... that got narrower and narrower... then became a two track... then became a sandy ORV trail. I was lucky to find a place to turn around.
Had we stayed on the paved road the campground was only a couple miles away...
