Stand-alone GPS or smartphone?
My wife and I just purchased our first Class A motorhome (2015 Holiday Rambler Vacationer) and we’re eager to hit the road. I’m wondering what opinions you more experienced drivers might have about GP...
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EV2 wrote:JaxDad wrote:pianotuna wrote:
I prefer using a cell phone--but there are times when there is no cell signal--in mountains etc.
GPS uses a satellite signal, not a cell network signal.
I routinely use my smart phone GPS when I'm WELL out of cell service. As a pilot I'm often "out of service" at only a few thousand feet up.
You just have to have the map database on the phone itself instead of something that needs to fetch the maps as you move along.
True, but you better have a ton of memory available for the maps if you wish to have the whole country unless you want to continually swap data maps with destinations around the country:
I guess it depends on your definition of a “ton”. All of North America in amazing detail is ~2GB of data.
