What gps do you use?

Campfire Time wrote:

JaxDad wrote:

Fizz wrote:

Tom/Barb wrote:
I don't use one,, my phone has "" MAPS""

Lets not get this argument going again.
A phone is not a GPS.
It shares some features but falls way short, assuming of course that one knows how to work a real GPS

Huh?

My iPhone has a GPS radio chip and a full database no different than any other GPS does.

In fact if you have the right software on your phone, and have access to a public (free) RTK base station you can take 1-2 cm RTK GNSS positions on a smartphone. This is accurate enough to legally make a land survey with.

How is that falling ‘way short’ of anything?

This is my question. Maybe 10 years ago that was true. However today, aside from maybe not having access to bridge height into, what is the difference? we rarely use our dedicated GPS anymore. Set a destination, download the maps, turn data off, and enjoy turn by turn voice navigation.

So ... are you saying that a phone can not have cell tower access and still navigate one all over the place ... assuming one bought a phone model with enough built-in memory capacity to have stored in it at all times a map database of all of the U.S. and Canada?

Our 3550LM Garmin can navigate us at any time anywhere in the lower U.S., Canada, and Alaska - of course without any "roaming charges". We also have over 400,000 custom Points of Interest at all times stored in it's internal memory (and could store even more POI's).

We do not like to be solely dependent on (spotty in the Western U.S. - still) cell tower access when we travel in our RV. We even carry along a Garmin satellite inReach device for text messaging and calling in emergency medical help when out and about. Our family can see where we're at from their homes whenever we're traveling and we're out of cell tower range ... by us keeping our inReach device turned on and hanging in the cab of the RV.