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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Z-Peller wrote:
Don't know about your model Garmin, but on my old Streetpilot I can add other places along my route, rather than just point A to point B.....try adding waypoints at various places along some of the secondary roads you want to travel and that will "force" the GPS to route you off the interstates......
That's what I generally do, and how I got it to send me on a different route than I-10. But, for some reason, it did not work at all to get me to my house. It kept wanting to send me 40 miles out of my way, back to I-95 and thru DC instead of using a bridge right by my house.
I'm glad others have the same frustrations with the darn things... Maybe it isn't just me.
I do like being able to know which lane to be in to exit or cross a major city, and being able to find locations in big cities without having to purchase and study a street-by-street map (since I do not have and WILL NOT have a smart phone, good old maps are my only option). But when it comes to "country" areas, the thing is pretty useless. The problem is that many of the smaller roads I want to take do not show up on an atlas, and sometimes not even on a foldable state map (they generally do show on the big thick atlas-sized books, which I am not purchasing one for every state I cross). Some only show up on county maps... That's when the GPS SHOULD be handy, too, but it doesn't seem to want to recognize them. It's funny how I can zoom in on any "internet" mapping system (Bing, MapQuest, Google, etc.) and see those roads and route over them, but the GPS won't let me.
