GPS issues - advice or help?
Be forewarned - I am NOT a "techie" person. I refuse to have a smart phone, still use a dinosaur desktop computer, etc. I have a Garmin Nuvi that my husband keeps updated for me, and was last updated ...
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paulj wrote:
On Google Maps, Charlottesville (even Fredericksburg) to S Maryland routes me (as fastest) over Harry Nice if the Maryland destination is Waldorf or south. Otherwise it thinks the I95 bridge is faster. For Waldorf the Nice route is shorter by 12 miles, but the time differences are in minutes.
If a GPS or mapping program insists on taking the freeway it is probably because the estimated time is less, due to higher projected speeds on the freeway. Switching preferences to 'shortest' will get you off the freeway. But it might also route you down some country lane.
That's the frustrating thing - we live a few miles from the Nice Bridge, on a "country lane". So to go all the way to DC and back down would take forever - TONS of stoplights on 210 or 301 to get from DC to where we live.... It makes no sense... I've learned all the "country lanes" down here in southern MD, and can get just about anywhere in Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's county WITHOUT the GPS. But I still need it's "advice" to navigate thru Virginia. Or so I thought...
