What gps do you use?

I have several Garmins and one Rand McNally.
We use a Garmin for day tripping when route is not too envolved. We use the Rand McNally in MH and more complex trips.
Garmins seem to have to reroute too often. Rand McNally just does it.
Randy is a 7 inch

I use a Garmin 770 and it works well most of the time. I bought it as an upgrade to get the WiFi update ability. It replaced a Garmin 760 which I bought after Apple Maps sent me down a road that had a underpass that was too low for my MH. I have used various brands of GPS units, and several iterations of phone based mapping solutions and they all have their failings and will from time to time cause you to slap your forehead and yell at the beoch in the box. I won’t use any Google based product or applications for various reasons, but primarily they could not fine my home. Many people have used it to try to find my place (on a major road) only to be sent down the wrong way.

I so wish microsoft had not abandoned "streets and trips".

I use a Magellan RoadMate. It works decently well for me, even though it's not an RV-specific model. While it may not always produce exactly optimal routing, it at least generally comes up with something that isn't totally crazy and sure beats guesswork with an atlas inset when in a city or town I'm not familiar with. I'm also not afraid to mute it when we disagree about how to navigate for some reason.

Any GPS system, whether standalone or a phone app, is going to be, at best, a good servant but a horrible master; it's akin to fire in that regard. The GPS is no replacement for using your common sense and powers of observation.

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

I don't use one,, my phone has "" MAPS""

I have 3 or 4 Garmins, car, truck, motorcycle. They all work as well as the maps that are supplied. I'm very happy with them.

But I only use them to guide me on a preset route. I don't use them to determine my route from point A to point B. I set it and they follow it.

Have you tried co-pilot?

Have you used the search function on the forum? This has been discussed dozens - if not hundreds - of times.

Rob

Garmin has always been one of the best.They been around a long time and I used one in the airplane. You need to make sure you have the settings correct in any GPS you use. Particularly the shortest distance versus main highways setting. I've used Magellan also, it's good but not as intuitive as Garmin. There's also TomTom, but I've never used one.